“An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been ...” — Andrew Davies Quote

“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.”

“The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.”

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

“Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?”

“Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.”