David Hare
David Hare
Sir David Hareis an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Most notable for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth5 June 1947
mean thinking play
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.
play glasses crafts
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
thinking important way
For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular.
mystery adaptation fidelity
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
strong adversity moon
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
tvs film
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
views people political
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.
writing crafts dialogue
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
farewell thinking europe
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
lying television film
The future of American film lies on television.
ill
Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.
government tvs stories
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
curiosity opinion valuable
The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.