David Hare Quotes

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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.
• Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.
• I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is…
• Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
• One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
• What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers…
• For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think…
• I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely…
• 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.
• If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with…
• [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…
• 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…
• 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.
• The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.
• I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
• If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
• I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.
• I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.
• I believe love opens people up.
• 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…

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