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My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.

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Andrew Davies
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 30
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Andrew Wynford Davies
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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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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
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Novels often have leisurely openings a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
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The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
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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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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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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
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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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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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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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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
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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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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 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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