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" 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. "

David Farr

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Doing The Right Thing

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Write first, worry later. "

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

" 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. "

" When you go into a forest, anything can happen. "

" 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. "

" To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function. "

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Garden

Matters

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water. "

" 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 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. "

" We go into nature to transform. "

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Transform

Nature

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

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Troy

Story

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

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Arrogance

Myself

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

" 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. "

" The thriller protagonist is really just us in extremis. He or she is this individual who is placed under enormous pressure, has huge moral dilemmas and decisions to make. "

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She

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

" 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. "