Andrew Davies Quotes

I really love period pieces.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

I like period pieces.

Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they're in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about 'The Knick' at all.

I love period dramas - be it romance or philosophy.

I did 'Little Dorrit' a few years ago; I really love doing period dramas. It's stuff like that I really enjoy watching.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that period and that world that was fascinating to people on a level that wasn't just as an entertainment.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

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.

I would love to do a British period drama.

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

I love period dramas.

I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.