David Hare Quotes

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• I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in…
• 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…
• It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question,…
• When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated…
• Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
• Smiles are the language of love.
• 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.…
• 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…
• Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
• The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
• As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
• In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
• The future of American film lies on television.
• When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
• Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
• Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working…

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