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" There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. "
Richard Foreman
Art
Been
Life
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" Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again. "
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" What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. "
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Write
Play
One Day
" 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
Want
Art
Audience
" 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. "
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World
Enchanted
Escape
" It's true, I don't like the real world. "
Richard Foreman
World
Like
Real
" 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
Language
Thought
Speed
" 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
People
Life
My Life
" Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience. "
Richard Foreman
Started
Audience
Now
" You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. "
Richard Foreman
Because
Army
Know
" 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
Feel
Trying
See
" If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit. "
Richard Foreman
Theater
Would
Hermit
" I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky. "
Richard Foreman
More
Years
Last
" One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience. "
Richard Foreman
Life
Does
Art
" 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
Coming
Where
Honest
" So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale. "
Richard Foreman
Plays
Yale
Start
" 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
You
Love
Over
" My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. "
Richard Foreman
Feeling
Play
Expression
" 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
Know
Group
You