Quotes by David Hare

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[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.

Heart

Trying

Way

[VIA DOLOROSA]’s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I’m an honest reporter or not. And if you’re convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn’t have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I’ve thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that’s fine.

Mean

Play

Thinking

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides – when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

Adversity

Moon

Strong

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Inability

Language

Stupid

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.

Europe And America

Farewell

Thinking

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can’t write a play.

Believe

Play

Writing

Children always turn to the light.

Children

Light

Turns

I actually think love changes everything. I think it’s the only thing worth having.

Thinking

I believe love opens people up.

Believe

I Believe

People

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.

Government

People

Theatre

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America

Answers

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Barbarism

Believe

Century

Character

Cheating

Children

Civilization

Crafts

Curiosity

Depressing

Dialogue

Dinner

Don't Like Me

Downing Street

Europe And America

Farewell

Glasses

God

Good Relationship

Government

Heart

Honor

I Believe

Ill

Important

Inability

Investment

Jobs

Keys

Killing

Language

Law

Libertarian

Light

Loss

Majority

Mean

Moments

Moon

Nature

Opinion

Oratory

Outcomes

Party

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Quotes by David Hare

David Hare

[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.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides – when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can’t write a play.

Children always turn to the light.

I actually think love changes everything. I think it’s the only thing worth having.

I believe love opens people up.

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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