David Hare Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by David Hare:
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
~David Hare
Link:
In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
~David Hare
Link:
You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
~David Hare
Link:
In oratory the will must predominate.
~David Hare
Link:
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.
~David Hare
Link:
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
~David Hare
Link:
'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
~David Hare
Link:
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
~David Hare
Link:
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
~David Hare
Link:
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
Link:
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
~David Hare
Link:
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
~David Hare
Link:
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
Link:
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
~David Hare
Link:
Smiles are the language of love.
~David Hare
Link:
Children always turn to the light.
~David Hare
Link:
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
~David Hare
Link:
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
~David Hare
Link:
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
~David Hare
Link:
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
~David Hare
Link:
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
~David Hare
Link:
Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
~David Hare
Link:
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 together.
~David Hare
Link:
When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
~David Hare
Link:
The future of American film lies on television.
~David Hare
Link:
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
~David Hare
Link:
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
~David Hare
Link:
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
~David Hare
Link:
No one but a fool is always right.
~David Hare
Link:
Share:
Permalink:
Browse: