British - Director | March 28, 1943 -
I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
Richard Eyre
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You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
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Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
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Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
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What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
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Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
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I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
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I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.
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I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
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A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
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I resent all organised religions.
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Don't ever be afraid to ask any question.
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