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
basically directors plays wary work
I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.
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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.
awful best came desire inclined leave life love sound
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.
opening performance production social wary wound
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.
memories feelings humanity
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
art giving-money people
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
thinking world cliffs
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.
art eye empathy
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
thinking self oysters
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.
pain grief character
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.
live-life thinking people
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.