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All Quotes by author - David Farr

" All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition. "

" As a director, I start with the visual. "

" As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom. "

" Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities. "

" Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely. "

" 'Fall Of A City' aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege. "

" 'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue. "

" 'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns. "

" 'Hamlet' is so modern; 'Coriolanus' is utterly alien to our consciousness, and that makes it difficult for us. "

" I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light - not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing. "

" I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare. "

" I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance. "

" I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.' "

" In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008. "

" I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write. "

" I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that's why we love it. "

" It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world. "

" I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat. "

" I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe. "

" Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises. "

" Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker. "

" Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey. "

" Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life. "

" The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes. "

" The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger. "

" The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story. "

" The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion. "

" The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder. "

" There's nothing more frightening - and exciting - than getting lost in a forest. There is a journey towards the light, and you've got to go through the dark to get to the light. That's what the forest is all about. "

" The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me. "

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