The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. David Hare More Quotes by David Hare More Quotes From David Hare The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. David Hare valuableopinioncuriosity To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. David Hare sinhonorgod Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again. David Hare ill 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 europe-and-americafarewellthinking 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 answerssoundjobs The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. David Hare dialoguecraftswriting In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. David Hare filmtvs 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. David Hare adversitystrongmoon . . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images. David Hare cargunfaces The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. David Hare barbarismtendenciescivilization An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. David Hare inabilitylanguagestupid In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare oratorywillpower Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass. David Hare craftsglassesplay [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. David Hare playmeanthinking As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. David Hare playwritingbelieve When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. David Hare deadoutspeakfall If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for? David Hare bridgetheatrepurposeyoung In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed. David Hare moreterrorismseriouspeople Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. David Hare justgreatpoliticsbusiness As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. David Hare samehumanjusttime
