45 Quotes by David Farr

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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