We have a very strict day that we have to adhere to. By doing that we have the freedom to improvise. Creativity is about limits not about freedom. Freedom, you don't know what to do. But when you have a structure, you can improvise off of it and have confidence enough to come back to it.
- Jon Stewart interviewed on the radio show "Fresh Air"

Film, for me, is not doing, is not being active. It's just watching what happens, not trying to control it. Now, it's true, the way I film, I very quickly set up a tableau, and within that tableau I give people a few lines, and then we film very fast. And I don't correct it. I accept mistakes. I'm telling people, as we're filming, what to do, which I may then cut out of the soundtrack, in the end. But I get raw material that's almost like filming a riot. And then the task that have, and the aesthetic task, and the spiritual task, as I see it, is just studying this, in a certain way, bad material that is not carefully wrought, like my theatre is wrought; looking at it again and again and again, to try and discover, uncover, and present the necessity, the spiritual ground that underlies what is not well articulated, just as powerfully as it underlies something that is very sculpted; very well-articulated. So, it's a whole different process, and it's taking a whole different kind of risk for me. And that's what excites me now.

- Richard Foreman interviewed for the website The Edge (www.edge.org)