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Richard Eyre
British
Director
Born:
Mar 28
,
1943
Always
Arts
People
Theatre
Think
You
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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
Depression
Character
You
Soul
Grief
Personality
Pain
Despair
Our
Physical
Mental
Physical Pain
Alleviate
Like
Dementia
Accessible
Less
Who
Connected
Treatment
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
Music
You
Experience
People
Sentiment
Live
Response
See
Rise
Windy
Share
Part
Shared
Headphones
Massive
Concerts
Get
Want
Rid
Downloading
Desire
Phenomenon
Vague
You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
Richard Eyre
You
Confidence
Director
Experience
Say
Minimalist
Until
Acquired
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
Change
Eyes
Word
Understanding
Other
Minds
Ears
Ourselves
Oneself
Put
Empathy
Identifying
Another
Enable
Begins
Person
Hearts
Human
Arts
Human Beings
Us
Beings
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
Happiness
Politics
Relationship
Creative
Politicians
Believe
Difficult
Society
Find
Weapon
Some
About
Rather
Having
Between
Opening
Ideas
Up
Than
Endeavour
Behaviour
Often
Arts
Interest
Deprivation
Nourishing
Whole
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
Culture
Theatre
Will
Example
National
Ownership
Enjoy
Society
Our
Those
Kind
Gulf
See
Brought
Shakespeare
Take
Never
Taken
Feel
Between
Opening
For Example
Cultural
Up
Privileges
Apartheid
Who
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
Waiting
Other
Our
Backstage
Restaurant
Above
Wings
Winking
Kitchen
Heads
Like
Audience
Passed
Waiters
Whenever
Customers
Shouting
Each
Actor
Floor
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
Reality
Solely
Insight
Denied
Up
Exotic
Arts
Commonplace
Social
Fantasy
Held
Means
Chance
Balance is the enemy of art.
Richard Eyre
Art
Balance
Enemy
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
Richard Eyre
Love
People
Responsibility
Everything
Say
Pleasure
People Say
About
Unquestioned
True
Without
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
Life
Art
Worth
About
Rather
Having
Private
Private Life
Than
Acknowledge
Public
Public Life
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
Good
You
Stupid
Guide
Some
Highly
Educated
Very
May
Them
Inarticulate
Good Actor
Good Actors
Bright
Actor
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
World
First
Big
Become
Think
Conspicuous
Collision
More
More And More
Between
Cliff
Got
Climb
Going
Third
Third World
I resent all organised religions.
Richard Eyre
Religions
Organised
Resent
Don't ever be afraid to ask any question.
Richard Eyre
Question
Any
Afraid
Ask
Ever
Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
Richard Eyre
Good
Try
Action
Every
Always
Consequence
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
Change
Science
Will
Other
Saving
Way
Ways
Destroy
Ourselves
Find
Solved
Feel
Instinctively
Sort
Am
Climate
Climate Change
Confident
Just
Less
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
Richard Eyre
You
People
Money
Giving
Unless
No Point
Point
Argued
Always
Educate
Arts
Them
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
Richard Eyre
Happiness
Myself
Envy
Sense
Others
Seem
Always
Belonging
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
You
Down
Think
Say
About
Write
Know
Most
Always
Discover
Subjects
Them
Asked
Believed
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
You
Balance
Long
Parents
Our
Slip
Easily
Parent
Only
Blaming
Balanced
Equation
Perpetually
Child
Maybe
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
Life
Love
Best
You
World
Better
Own
Politicians
Think
Some
Voice
Impelled
Better Place
Because
Got
Sound
Leave
Came
Go
Than
May
Place
Mean
Reasons
Inclined
Awful
Desire
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