Quotes by David Farr - Page 1

We go into nature to transform.
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Transform
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As a director, I start with the visual.
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Visual
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When you go into a forest, anything can happen.
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Forest
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I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.
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Instinctive
Reaction
Shakespeare
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I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.
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Writer
Think Just I Think
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I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
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Arrogance
Selling
Shy
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The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.
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Ancient
Always Me City
City Me Always
Troy
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I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'
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Aims
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As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.
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Myth
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Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey.
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Journey
Prefer
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Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.
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Hood
Robin Hood
Robin
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The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.
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Secular
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Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.
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Gregarious
Introverted
Lonely
Directing
Extrovert
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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
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Form
Proud
Taste
Theatre
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'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.
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Clowns
Ghosts
Hamlet
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You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available!
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Available
Cast
None
Sadly
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The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.
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Anger
Hood
Robin Hood
Ruling
Classes
Dispossessed
Robin
Stands
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'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.
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Intrigue
Fundamentally
Game Of Thrones
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'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us.
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Consciousness
Alien
Hamlet
Utterly
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Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.
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Driven
Point Of View
Attacked
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To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.
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Eden
Function
Garden
Meaningless
Symbolic
Convey
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Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
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Analysing
Dealing
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We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the right thing on our behalf.
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Behalf
Care
Country
Doing The Right Thing
Right Thing
The Right Thing
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'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.
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Effects
Richness
Siege
Aims
Convey
Horrors
Toll
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It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
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Bleak
Mercy
Redemption
Virtue
Christian World
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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.
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Trust
Book
Screenwriter
Skeleton
Strip
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The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has huge moral dilemmas and decisions to make.
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Enormous
Huge
Individual
Moral
Pressure
Decisions
Dilemmas
Enormous Pressure
He Or She
Placed
Protagonist
Thriller
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I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.
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Hood
Robin Hood
Aristocrat
Bandit
Classes
Increasingly
Robin
Struck
Upper
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I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that's why we love it.
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Betrayal
Modernist
Godless
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In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008.
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Flawed
Agreed
Liberal
Proved
Solved
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The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.
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Fairy
Fairy Tale
Love Story
Saga
Cracking
Lighter
Tale
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There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about.
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Frightening
Forest
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The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.
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Fairy
Type
Come
Been
Thought
Were
Discover
Fairy Tales
Forest
Place
Ordeal
Some
Shakespeare
Stripped
Takes
Where
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I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing.
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Honour
Light
Above
Always World Light
Light World Shine
Read
Enhance
Maybe
Placing
Reinvent
Shine
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All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.
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Dark
Laughter
Recognise
Towers
Truths
Unnerving
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We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things short.
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Cambridge
Devising
Odd
Proud
Theatre
Upside Down
Achieved
Apart
Blew
Disciplined
Short
Eventually
Spaces
Turned
Upside
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The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.
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History
Calm
Capitalism
Conscience
Social
Stable
Water
Talk
Blown
Consumer
Somewhat
Seemed
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The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.
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Character
Contact
Dramatic
Honest
Reason
Robin Hood
Series
Stories
Becomes
Certainly
Discover
Learns
Rather
Robin
Smug
To Be Honest
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