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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.

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Andrew Davies
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 30
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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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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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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 adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
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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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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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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 would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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Novels often have leisurely openings a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
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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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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
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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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The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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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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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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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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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'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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You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
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