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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.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Becomes Confusion Elizabeth Embarrassment Eyes Gratitude Just Look Love Me Most Moving Music Plays Prejudice Pride Reciprocated Room Saved Scene See Sister Which

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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.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: About Absolutely Adapting Ask Childish Cross Doing Even Got Heard Me Mistake Quite Sense Sensibility Should Some Surely Thompson Thought

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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Always Dying Get Offices Out People Bbc

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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.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Adaptation Also Asked Been David Dickens Going Instead Me Son Working Bbc

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

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Like People Think You

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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.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Audiences Best Big Dramas From Time To Time Hunger Less Little Move Nostalgia Often People Period Rebel Say Sentimentality Simply Stories Them Think Time Want Way

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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Absolutely Delighted Me People Period Quality Reliable Stuff Think

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Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Drama Needs Novels Often Opening Openings Tv

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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

Topics: Audience Each Episode Experience God Leave Now Oh Oh My God Plan Satisfying Still Thinking

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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Always End Even Like Love Love Stories Stories Tragically Write

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: September 20th, 1936

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