Quotes by Richard Eyre - Page 1

Balance is the enemy of art.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Balance
Enemy
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I resent all organised religions.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Organised
Resent
Religions
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Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Good
Action
Consequence
Good Always Try
Always
Try
Every
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The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
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Weapons
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The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Faith
Acting
Decent
Good Faith
Heart
Faith Work Good
Principle
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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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Naming
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There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Detain
Needing
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You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Minimalist
Acquired
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I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Belonging
Envy
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Laughed
Mary
Mockery
Student
Mary Poppins
Object
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Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Pleasure
Love Responsibility People
People Say
Unquestioned
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Art
Educate
Giving
Giving Money
No Point
People
Money Always People
Argued
Arts
Money People Always
Unless
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Shy
Chronically
Developed
Mechanisms
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Admire
Grit
Oysters
Self
Self-doubt
Thinking
Anyone
Essential
Ingredient
Oyster
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What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Feelings
Humanity
Memories
Heads
Memory
Sum
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Impression
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Ambiguous
Governments
Wary
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Desperation
Live Life
People
Quiet
Thinking
World I Am People
Gap
People Say
Undiscovered
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If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Commonplace
Denied
Exotic
Fantasy
Insight
Arts
Held
Solely
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Cliffs
Collision
Thinking
Third World
World
Cliff
Conspicuous
More And More
Third
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Acknowledge
Private Life
Public Life
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Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Likes
Theatre
Me Everything Something
Curiously
Move On
Passes
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Subjects
Asked
Believed
Discover
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Empirical
Plays
Wary
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Opening
Theatre
Nights
Event
Occasion
Wary
Wound
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Balance
Parent
Blaming
Easily
Equation
Perpetually
Slip
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Climate Change
Confident
Destroy
Instinctively
Solved
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Depression
Alleviate
Character
Connected
Dementia
Despair
Grief
Pain
Personality
Physical Pain
Soul
Treatment
Accessible
Less
Mental
Physical
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Alienation
Blown Away
Classic
Theatre
Chemical
Classic Example
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Art
Change
Ears
Empathy
Eye
Human Beings
Identifying
Oneself
Understanding
Person
Another
Arts
Begins
Beings
Human
Eyes
Hearts
Word
Put
Minds
Other
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Educated
Inarticulate
Stupid
Bright
Good Actor
Guide
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Bird
Eye
Helpful
Intimate
Understand
Scale
Talents
Floor
Happening
Harnessing
Immensely
Large
Shop
Simultaneously
Story
View
Telling
Worm
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Concerts
Headphones
Massive
Phenomenon
Response
Windy
Experience Music People
Rise
Downloading
Sentiment
Rid
Shared
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Customers
Shouting
Waiting
Wings
Winking
Backstage
Floor
Heads
Passed
Restaurant
Waiters
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Behaviour
Deprivation
Endeavour
Opening
Politicians
Weapon
Nourishing
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Better Place
Desire
Life Love Best
Politicians
Impelled
Inclined
Reasons
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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.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Apartheid
Opening
Ownership
Theatre
Society Culture Feel
Cultural
For Example
Gulf
Privileges
Shakespeare
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