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
fool
No one but a fool is always right.
winning majority dont-like-me
The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.
gun car cinema
. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.
important crafts speak
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
thinking
I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate.
stupidity inability language
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
civilization barbarism tendencies
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
god honor sin
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
ill
Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.
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.
curiosity opinion valuable
The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
getting-older vitality walks
One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.
tvs film
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.