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
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The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
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Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
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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 am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
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I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.
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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.
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The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
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Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
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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.