List of David Hare Quotes

One Of The Depressing Things In England Is The Total Orthodoxy: The Law Is Handed Down From Downing Street.

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.

An Inability To Handle Language Is Not The Same Thing As Stupidity.

Via Dolorosa Is The Only Thing I Have Ever Acted In My Life, Professionally, And Ill Never Act Again.

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.

The Great Mystery Of Adaptation Is That True Fidelity Can Only Be Achieved Through Lavish Promiscuity.

In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

I Never Used To Kill Characters, Because I Thought Killing Characters Was Cheating.

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] 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.

Insofar As I'm Good At Directing, It's Because I've Become A Writer.

Purity Is The Feminine, Truth The Masculine Of Honor.