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• Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.

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  Glasses, Play, Crafts

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• An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

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  Stupid, Inability, Language

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• If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

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  Character, People, Easy

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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

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  Writing, Crafts, Dialogue

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• One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

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  Getting Older, Vitality, Walks

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

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  Art, Good Relationship, Purpose

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.

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  Running, Country, War

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I don't see the theater as an establishment. The National Theatre has always seemed to me a people's theater. It was never meant to reinforce the values of the government of the day, nor does it, nor should it.

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  Government, People, Theatre

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

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  Trying, Libertarian, Century

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

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  Mystery, Adaptation, Fidelity

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• . . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

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  Gun, Car, Faces

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• I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

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  Cheating, Character, Killing

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

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  Russia, Views, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• [David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.

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  Heart, Trying, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

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  Depressing, Law, Downing Street

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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

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  Curiosity, Opinion, Valuable

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• The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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  Civilization, Tendencies, Barbarism

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

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  Ill

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• Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

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  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

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  Farewell, Thinking, Europe And America

  "David Hare pays tribute to Philip French". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

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  God, Honor, Sin

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• In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

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  Tvs, Film

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• [VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

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  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• In oratory the will must predominate.

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  Oratory, Willpower

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• It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"

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  Play, Moments, Tease

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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