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
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.
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.
character people easy
If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
people
In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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.
admire believe benign collateral damage destroyed knows lives london man military number operation people polite production saw taken un view word
In the London production, Powell was represented much more, if you like, as a hero. I admire him as a man who understands what collateral damage is, who understands what a military operation is, and who knows what it's like to see people's lives destroyed by bombs. On the other hand, a number of people who saw the play in London, who were as they say, 'close,' did say, 'You've taken too benign a view of Powell.' And in this production in New York, I've toughened up the writing about Powell. I've come to believe that 'conflicted' would be a very polite word for his UN presentation.
believe people i-believe
I believe love opens people up.
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.
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.