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" 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. "

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" '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. "

David Farr

City

War

Family

" 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. "

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

David Farr

Garden

Matters

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

David Farr

Who

She

" You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available! "

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

" We go into nature to transform. "

David Farr

Transform

Nature

" 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. "

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

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

David Farr

Troy

Story

" We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I'm still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things short. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

David Farr

Arrogance

Myself