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Richard Foreman Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again Picture Quote #1

One does not devote one’s life in art to shock an audience Picture Quote #1

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play Picture Quote #1

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It’s true, I don’t like the real world Picture Quote #1

If I wasn’t in the theater, I would be a hermit Picture Quote #1

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life Picture Quote #1

I’ve been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) I’ve been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky. (Richard Foreman Quotes) 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 Quotes) Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again (Richard Foreman Quotes) One does not devote one’s life in art to shock an audience (Richard Foreman Quotes) What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play (Richard Foreman Quotes) It’s true, I don’t like the real world (Richard Foreman Quotes) If I wasn’t in the theater, I would be a hermit (Richard Foreman Quotes) Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience (Richard Foreman Quotes) 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 Quotes) There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life (Richard Foreman Quotes) I’ve been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky (Richard Foreman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)