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
heart trying way
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate.
important crafts speak
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
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. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.
views america russia
The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
fool
No one but a fool is always right.
wind sailing sail
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
play moments tease
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?"
nature keys hieroglyphics
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
art writing style
Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.
art theatre done
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.
character people easy
If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
advice outcomes investment
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.