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
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.
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.
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.
sex writing trying
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.
cheating character killing
I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
writing play reason
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.
apart carry people trick
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
valuable
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
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.
business capitalist function great politics
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
job parallel surely
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.