Andrew Davies
Andrew Davies
Andrew Wynford Daviesis a Welsh writer of screenplays and novels, best known for House of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice, and his adaptations of Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and War & Peace. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth20 September 1936
needs wonderful problem
The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
hands dirt lows
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.
drama optimistic periods
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
growing-up teenager drinking
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."
writing stories love-story
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
numbers classic ridiculous
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.
eye focus mouths
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.
company compete consider costs cut increase investment join necessary ranks soon tools whether worldwide
Whether you consider an investment in conferencing to be a way to cut costs or to increase productivity, these tools will soon join the ranks as necessary tools for your company to compete in the worldwide economy.
baggy bleak boils characters chuck comic extra flavor great himself horrible house include lose nice plot related sorts spine stick stop tinker work
Bleak House is a great baggy thing, the plot doesn't work in all sorts of parts, so you've got to tinker with it. Usually I tell myself, find the spine of the story and stick to that and chuck out anything not related to the spine of the story, but that doesn't work with Dickens. You lose the flavor of him if you don't include all those other extra comic characters that he couldn't stop himself from creating. The plot bulges out. It's like horrible boils or something, but in a nice way.
bit energy seemed woke
They also said they woke better and seemed to have a bit more energy during the day.
people
You can't make people do what they don't want to do,
consider delighted developing forward further huge leader michigan state wales
Wales is delighted to be partnering with the state of Michigan, who we consider to be a leader in the ITS American arena. We see huge synergies between Michigan and Wales and look forward to further developing these opportunities.
bit great hello music puts serious splash together
The idea is to make a bit of a splash with this concert, to say hello in a way that introduces some very serious music but also puts together a great disparity of music with relish,
expecting fast miracles people realistic
It is a fascinating period, but people are expecting miracles - and miracles just don't happen, ... We have to be realistic about how fast we can change.