You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available! — David Farr Available Copy Share Image
Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life. — David Farr Always Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.' — David Farr Clear Copy Share Image
Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises. — David Farr Hood Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey. — David Farr Journey Copy Share Image
As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom. — David Farr Enter Copy Share Image
We don't live in vacuums; we do care about the world, and we do want to believe our country is doing the… — David Farr Believe Copy Share Image
The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes. — David Farr Anger Copy Share Image
I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious… — David Farr Betrayal Copy Share Image
I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've… — David Farr Back Copy Share Image
The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has… — David Farr Pressure Copy Share Image
In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in… — David Farr Capitalism Copy Share Image
The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and… — David Farr Fairy tale Copy Share Image
It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise… — David Farr Mercy Copy Share Image
We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of… — David Farr Everything Copy Share Image
All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving.… — David Farr Dark Copy Share Image
The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where… — David Farr Calm Copy Share Image
I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some… — David Farr Find Copy Share Image
There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and… — David Farr Forest Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You… — David Farr Always Copy Share Image
The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not… — David Farr Character Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns. — David Farr Clowns Copy Share Image
The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me. — David Farr Always Copy Share Image
The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion. — David Farr Freedom Copy Share Image
Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely. — David Farr Directing Copy Share Image
To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function. — David Farr Eden Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker. — David Farr Point of view Copy Share Image
'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city… — David Farr City Copy Share Image
'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us. — David Farr Alien Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts… — David Farr Aristocrat Copy Share Image
Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities. — David Farr Collection Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue. — David Farr Game Copy Share Image
