- Playwright | June 10, 1937 -
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
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It's true, I don't like the real world.
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Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.
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One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
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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.
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My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
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Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.
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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.
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If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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