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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. — Richard Eyre Copy Share
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love. — Richard Eyre Copy Share
There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. — Richard Eyre Copy Share
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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. — Richard Eyre Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
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,… — Richard Eyre Copy Share
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 Copy Share
