Andrew Davies famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
-- Andrew Davies

#Being Yourself #People #Important
'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
People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.
-- Andrew Davies

#People #Office #Dying
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
-- Andrew Davies

#Two #Boots
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.
-- Andrew Davies

#People #Tragedy #Notes
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

#Teacher #Writing #Age
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
-- Andrew Davies

#Drama #Needs #Tvs
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.
-- Andrew Davies

#Eye #Focus #Mouths
Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
-- Andrew Davies

#Children #Giving #Advice
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

#Growing Up #Teenager #Drinking
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.
-- Andrew Davies

#Gratitude #Moving #Eye
People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
-- Andrew Davies

#Thinking #People #Bonnets
Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?
-- Andrew Davies

#Thinking #Episodes #Plans
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

#Jobs #Father #Writing
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.
-- Andrew Davies

#Fun #America #People
Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
-- Andrew Davies

#Humour #Dickens
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
-- Andrew Davies

#Needs #Problem #Wonderful
The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
-- Andrew Davies

#Drama #Writing #People
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

#Hands #Dirt #Lows
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.
-- Andrew Davies

#Drama #Thinking #People
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

#Hate #Giving #Together
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.
-- Andrew Davies

#Fun #Writing #Holiday
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.
-- Andrew Davies

#Wife #Likes #Documentaries
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
-- Andrew Davies

#Writing #Stories #Love Story
I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
-- Andrew Davies

#Frustration #Classic #Adaptation

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