Are we simply waving
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. David Hare
David Hare
An inability to handle
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. David Hare
Via Dolorosa is the
Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again. David Hare
One of the depressing
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. David Hare
Writers always sound insufferably
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. David Hare
Insofar as I’m good
Insofar as I’m good at directing, it’s because I’ve become a writer. David Hare
I’m vey bad at
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. David Hare
Purity is the feminine,
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. David Hare
I never used to
I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating. David Hare
The orthodoxy of America
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. David Hare