Quotes by Andrew Davies - Page 1

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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Dickens
Humour
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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Bonnets
People
Thinking
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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Advice
Be Careful
Children
Giving
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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Love Story
Stories
Writing
Love End Always
Love Stories
Tragically
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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
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Dying
Office
People
Bbc
Offices
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The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
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Drama
People
Writing
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Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
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Arresting
Drama
Needs
Opening
Tvs
Leisurely
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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Provinces
Taste
Teach
University
Tastes
Suppose
Teaches
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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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Boots
Two
Named
Boot
Drafts
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You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Being Yourself
Important
People
Stuck
Yourself Important People
Yourself People Important
Important Thing
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Austen
Character
Fairy
Jane
Lines
Looks
Tales
Derive
Fairy Tales
Reasonably
Straight Line
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I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
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Adaptation
Adore
Classic
Frustration
Frustrations
Limitations
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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Quality
Delighted
People
Stuff
Thinking
Me Quality People
Reliable
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I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Jobs
Adapting
Doe
Ifs
Love Great Me
Great Gatsby
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I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Optimistic
Drama
Periods
Fairly
Remain
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Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?
Andrew Davies / Writer
Episodes
Plans
Thinking
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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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Satisfying
Episode
Oh My God
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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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Fun
Holiday
Writing
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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.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Function
Needs
Problem
Wonderful
Bbc
Cultural
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'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
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Affinity
Beautiful
Delicate
Emotional
Intense
Laughing
Love Story
Spooky
Element
Laughs
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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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Documentaries
Likes
Wife
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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.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Beautiful
Blue
Dark
Unusual
Mercedes
Most Beautiful
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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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Eye
Focus
Mouths
Uncomfortable
Prefer
Shot
Otherwise
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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.
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Movies
Dirt
Hands
Lows
Paid
Writer
Hand
Hired
Low
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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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Notes
People
Tragedy
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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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Domestic
Likely
Note
Othello
Personal Note
Shakespeare
Strike
Tragedies
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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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America
Contribution
Enormous
Fun
People
Life Fun People
Cultural
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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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Classic
Critics
Fed Up
Numbers
Reviews
Ridiculous
Commissioned
Fed
Reaction
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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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Distinguished
Office
Producers
Years
Producer
Refused
Tip
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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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Character
Contemporary
Drama
Satisfying
Stories
Adapt
Dramas
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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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Glad
Height
Mad
Mess
Thinking
Adapt
Sisters
Heights
Wuthering
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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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Age
Teacher
Writing
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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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Drama
People
Sopranos
Thinking
Best Better People
Mostly
The Sopranos
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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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Drinking
Growing Up
Teenager
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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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Adaptation
Dickens
Son
David
Bbc
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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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Adapting
Crosses
Emma
Mistake
Sensibility
Childish
Cross
Surely
Thompson
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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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Centre
Mother
Trying
Work Out
Time Work Mother
Demanding
Emotionally
They Say
Wanting
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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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Adaptation
Clothes
Drag
Necks
Time Always Looking
Neck
Excuses
Time Looking Always
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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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Jobs
Father
Writing
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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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Drama
Hunger
Moving
Nostalgia
Sentimentality
Thinking
Best Time People
Dramas
From Time To Time
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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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Sister
Confusion
Embarrassment
Eye
Gratitude
Moving
Prejudice
Pride
Saved
Scene
Becomes
Love Music Eyes
Elizabeth
Eyes
Room
Plays
Pride And Prejudice
Reciprocated
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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.
Andrew Davies / Writer
Edited
Exposing
Giving
Hate
Together
Affects
Bonded
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