The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
