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
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It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"
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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
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Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
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Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
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Smiles are the language of love.
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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
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'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
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Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.