American - Businessman | 1955 -
Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.
David Farr
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There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about.
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When you go into a forest, anything can happen.
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The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.
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As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.
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I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.
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The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.
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To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.
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The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.
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I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
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'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.
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It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
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