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
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare
You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. – David Hare
Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. – David Hare
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. – David Hare
The one thing that ‘Via Dolorosa’ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. – David Hare
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. – David Hare
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. – David Hare
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. – David Hare
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
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
