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 DaviesLook at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
Andrew DaviesI adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.
Andrew DaviesI 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