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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
Andrew Davies
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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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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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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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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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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
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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.
Andrew Davies
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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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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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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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
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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 would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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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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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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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'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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I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
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Novels often have leisurely openings a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
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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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