Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no. — 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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I… — 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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at. — 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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long… — 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
