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Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
David Hare
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David Hare
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
Television Director
Theatrical Director
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St Leonards
East Sussex
Sir David Hare
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As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.
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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.
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The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
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In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
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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 private life, because public life is a dead loss.
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In oratory the will must predominate.
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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
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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 want the truth, and they're not compatible.
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
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Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.
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One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
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If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.
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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.
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