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

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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. - David Hare

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - David Hare

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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

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Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. - David Hare

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. - David Hare

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. - David Hare

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When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. - David Hare

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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. - David Hare

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

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