Andrew Davies Quotes

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• When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

  Andrew Davies

  Two, Boots

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• Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.

  Andrew Davies

  People, Tragedy, Notes

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• One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

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  Clothes, Necks, Adaptation

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• I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

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  Teacher, Writing, Age

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• Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

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  Drama, Needs, Tvs

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• I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

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  Eye, Focus, Mouths

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• Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

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  Children, Giving, Advice

  "This much I know". Interview by Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.

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  Drama, Writing, People

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• The most moving scene for me in 'Pride and Prejudice' is the Pemberley music room scene: Elizabeth has just saved Darcy's sister from embarrassment and confusion, and as the music plays on, Darcy's look of gratitude becomes a look of love, which we see reciprocated in Elizabeth's eyes.

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  Gratitude, Moving, Eye

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• I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

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  Thinking, People, Quality

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• I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

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  Jobs, Doe, Ifs

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• As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

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  Growing Up, Teenager, Drinking

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• I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

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  Beautiful, Dark, Blue

  "This much I know". Interview with Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

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  Taste, Teach, University

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• I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

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  Drama, Optimistic, Periods

  "Andrew Davies: BBC period drama is 'going downmarket'" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2009.

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• I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays the bills because a writer doesn't make any money. If possible, get a job that allows you to write in your spare time."

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  Jobs, Father, Writing

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• I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

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  Numbers, Ridiculous, Classic

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• 'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

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  Beautiful, Emotional, Laughing

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• An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

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  Son, Adaptation, Dickens

  "Andrew Davies: BBC period drama is 'going downmarket'" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2009.

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• The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

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  Fun, Writing, Holiday

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• From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.

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  Drama, Moving, Thinking

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• I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

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  Mistake, Emma, Crosses

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• I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.

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  Mother, Work Out, Trying

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• I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

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  Drama, Character, Stories

  "Andrew Davies: BBC period drama is 'going downmarket'" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2009.

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• I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

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  Thinking, Mad, Height

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