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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As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
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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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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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Not only has Harold Pinter written some of the outstanding plays of his time, he has also blown fresh air into the musty attic of conventional English literature, by insisting that everything he does has a public and political dimension,
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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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The thing about Shakespeare is, whatever his politics were, the one thing he wasn't was an anarchist. He believes there's something called power, and he believes that somebody has to take it. And that you can't pretend power doesn't exist. And to me, Bush is a person who understands American power, and what it can do. But unfortunately, he's used it in a way that reveals its limitations, and that's the tragedy, if you like.
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that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay or not, which is a rather arid argument, but what's more important is that he wrote in an openly sexual way. And sex is a vital part of his romanticism.