101 Quotes by David Hare

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 different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.

The future of American film lies on television.

Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

Children always turn to the light.

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.

Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.