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
loss thinking america
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.
truth masculine-and-feminine honor
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
heart trying way
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.
trying libertarian century
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
creative hue want
What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.
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.
party dinner argument
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.
cheating character killing
I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
strength
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
conducting human narratives time
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
nearer
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
job parallel surely
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
frogs
When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
acted life
'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.