The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. – Richard Eyre
A place makes a deep impression on you when youre young. It lives with you. Its like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. – Richard Eyre
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. – Richard Eyre
A place makes a deep impression on you when youre young. It lives with you. Its like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination. – Richard Eyre
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. – Richard Eyre
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 confident that we wont destroy ourselves in other ways. – Richard Eyre
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – whats going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. – Jonathan Safran Foer