Richard Foreman Quotes

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.

I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.