Richard Eyre
Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBEis an English film, theatre, television and opera director...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 March 1943
love people
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
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.
decide morning sit
Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead.
Don't ever be afraid to ask any question.
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I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
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All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
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I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical engineer until I went to the theatre for the first time at 16 and was blown away by it.
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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.
happiness understanding
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
good
Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
lives
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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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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Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
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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.