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
life-is ends end-of-the-road
When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.
winning majority dont-like-me
The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.
cheating character killing
I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
sex writing trying
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.
thinking
I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.
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.
government people theatre
I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.
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.
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.
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.
depressing law downing-street
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
truth masculine-and-feminine honor
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
god honor sin
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
believe writing play
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.