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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

  Drama, Optimistic, Periods

  "Andrew Davies: BBC period drama is 'going downmarket'" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2009.

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• I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

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  Taste, Teach, University

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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

  Beautiful, Dark, Blue

  "This much I know". Interview with Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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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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  Hate, Giving, Together

  "How to turn Dickens into a serial thriller" by Andrew Davies, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2008.

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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, Thinking, People

  "This much I know". Interview with Catriona O'Shaughnessy, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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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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  Thinking, Mad, Height

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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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  Drama, Character, Stories

  "Andrew Davies: BBC period drama is 'going downmarket'" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2009.

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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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  Mother, Work Out, Trying

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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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  Mistake, Emma, Crosses

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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, Moving, Thinking

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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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  Son, Adaptation, Dickens

  "Andrew Davies: BBC period drama is 'going downmarket'" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2009.

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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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  Hands, Dirt, Lows

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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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  Needs, Problem, Wonderful

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• Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

  Andrew Davies

  Humour, Dickens

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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.

  Andrew Davies

  Beautiful, Emotional, Laughing

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