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 →
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
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.
Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
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 engineer until I... →
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... →
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 the shop... →
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... →
Balance is the enemy of art.
Don't ever be afraid to ask any question.
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.