Andrew Davies Quotes

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to.

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'

I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.