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
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He's been both an example and an inspiration to us all.
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'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
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Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
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The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
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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.
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The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I understand it was mine.
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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.
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If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?