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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.
Andrew Davies
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Andrew Davies
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 30
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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 like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
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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'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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Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?
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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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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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Novels often have leisurely openings a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
Andrew Davies
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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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
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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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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
Andrew Davies
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.
Andrew Davies
Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know.
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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.
Andrew Davies
I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
Andrew Davies
The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
Andrew Davies
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
Andrew Davies
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.
Andrew Davies
Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
Andrew Davies
