Quotes by Richard Foreman - Page 1

It's true, I don't like the real world.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Real
Real World
World
The Real World
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If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Hermits
Theater
Would Be
Hermit
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So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Decided
Plays
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One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Art
Doe
Shock
Devote
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Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Opposite
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What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Decided
New Day
One Day
Play
Writing
Day New One Day
New Kind
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You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Army
Wanted
Yale
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There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Art
Made
Truthful
Life Work Art
No Work
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My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Expression
Gdp
Twilight
Ultimate
Western
Western Civilization
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Actors
Theater
Ukulele
Stare
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I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Being Honest
Honest
Trying
Realized
To Be Honest
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I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Lasts
Trying
Years
Risky
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Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Firsts
Roots
Waiting
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I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Aggravation
High School
Junior High
School
Senior
Know School High School
Acted
School Know High School
Group
Junior
Junior High School
Main
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I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Bizarre
Enchanted
Meticulous
Real
World
Detailed
Escape
Seemed
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From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Twenty Two
Absolutely Everything
Time New Everything
Dramatist
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As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Emotional
Fifteen
Over You
Theater
Trying
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I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Missing
People
Theatrical
Unhappy
Life Music People
Life Music My Life
Desperately
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I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Technology
Information
Self
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All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Dialogue
Speed
Tape
Performance
Repeated
Slower
Web
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Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Age
Broadway
Broadway Shows
Fifteen
Manipulate
Sentimental
Trying
Practically
Hits
Pandering
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Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Art
Don't Care
Issues
Real
Response
Claim
Implies
Issue
Real Issue
Wake
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I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Men
Technology
Unique
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Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.
Richard Foreman / Playwright
Art
Book
Struggle
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