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
tvs film
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
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.
writing crafts dialogue
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
farewell thinking europe
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
lying television film
The future of American film lies on television.
ill
Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.
government tvs stories
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
curiosity opinion valuable
The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
running father winning
My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.
children light turns
Children always turn to the light.
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.
civilization barbarism tendencies
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
stupidity inability language
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
jobs answers sound
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.