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Famous David Hare Quotes
“Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.”
Source: Acting Up
“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”
“Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.”
“Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.”
“The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.”
“I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.”
“I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.”
“I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.”
“In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.”
“The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.”
“Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.”
“The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.”
“An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.”