Richard Foreman Quotes

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

I love to live in a magical place.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Everything is always a little surreal.

'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

A dream itself is but a shadow.

That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

We all live best in our imaginations.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."