Richard Eyre
  • The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

  • The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

  • I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

  • 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.

  • 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.