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You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.

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Andrew Davies
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 30
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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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Novels often have leisurely openings a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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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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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
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A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.
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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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'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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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
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The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
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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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The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
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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.
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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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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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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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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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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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I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
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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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