Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director. Read full biography of Richard Eyre →
We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who... →
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put... →
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.
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
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.
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... →
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
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... →
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... →
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... →
Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in... →
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.