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
Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.
believe thinking play
I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.
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.
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.
mean thinking play
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.
play glasses crafts
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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.
mystery adaptation fidelity
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
strong adversity moon
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.