Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
From Richard Eyre
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
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.
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.
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.
I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.
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.
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.
I resent all organised religions.
Don't ever be afraid to ask any question.
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