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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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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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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When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.
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I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.
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The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.
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I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
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I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.
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I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.
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I believe love opens people up.
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I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.
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I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.
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I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.
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One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.