68 Quotes by Richard Foreman

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.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

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.

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.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

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.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.