David Hare

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. ”

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. ”

Children always turn to the light. ”

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. ”

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. ”

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. ”

The future of American film lies on television. ”

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ”