Richard Eyre Quotes & Sayings
38 most famous Richard Eyre quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 81 year old British director born on Mar 28, 1943.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.”
“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.”
“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.”
“'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.”
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