I can’t just lie in bed and be self-obsessed if there are two children running about who could easily fall down the stairs. Julia Davis Read Quote
You have to be enough of a parent – you have to be there. If I’m feeling bad, I really do just have to get on with it and try and channel it back into my work somehow, do something positive with it. Julia Davis Read Quote
I always imagine people give succinct answers. I have no prepared thoughts on what I do. Julia Davis Read Quote
I love all Daphne du Maurier’s stuff. And just enjoying period dramas, really… wanting to do something drastically different from ‘Nighty Night’, the chance to write very different language. Julia Davis Read Quote
I was brought up in Guildford, and I think I used to absorb all the suburban things – seeing coffee mornings, women talking… that stuff, really. I was watching Alan Ayckbourn on some documentary, and he was talking about how he was around a lot of women as a child, listening to all that stuff. Julia Davis Read Quote
I actually think I’m still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking. Julia Davis Read Quote
People who know my track record know when I’ve got a vision in mind, I’ll see it through. But sometimes it’s hard to convey what you’re trying to achieve. Julia Davis Read Quote
If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something. Julia Davis Read Quote
I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn’t know how to deal with it. Maybe it’s because I’ve experienced that sort of thing and I don’t know how to say, ‘You can’t do that. You can’t say that to me.’ Julia Davis Read Quote
