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

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

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.
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, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
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.
Richard Foreman

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
Richard Foreman

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