British - Director | March 28, 1943 -
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.
Richard Eyre
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Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
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There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national culture is theirs, to take ownership of it, and enjoy the privileges of that, and those who are completely disfranchised, those - for example - who will never be taken to the theatre to see Shakespeare.
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Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers.
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There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
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I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.
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I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
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I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about them, I'd say I don't know, I'll have to write them down.
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I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.
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'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
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The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
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I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
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