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Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

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Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

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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.

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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.

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What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: March 28th, 1943

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