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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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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
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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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I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.
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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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Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.
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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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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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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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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
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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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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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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
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