Richard Eyre
Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBEis an English film, theatre, television and opera director...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth28 March 1943
ambiguous deal rather wary
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
curiously likes
Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
chance denied fantasy held means social solely
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.
balanced blaming easily maybe slip
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.
There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
live-life thinking people
I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.