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…

- Richard Foreman

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…

- Richard Foreman

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 ove…

- Richard Foreman

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,…

- Richard Foreman

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

- Richard Foreman

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of hi…

- Richard Foreman

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

- Richard Foreman

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

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