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 Read Quote
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. Richard Foreman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. Richard Foreman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
