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" For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban. "

Julian Fellowes

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" There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community. "

Julian Fellowes

" Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything. "

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" Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots. "

Julian Fellowes

" The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' "

Julian Fellowes

" When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding. "

Julian Fellowes

" What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two. "

Julian Fellowes

" I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. "

Julian Fellowes

" When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material. "

Julian Fellowes

" Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration. "

Julian Fellowes

" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

Julian Fellowes

" If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. "

Julian Fellowes

" To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. "

Julian Fellowes

" I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family. "

Julian Fellowes

" Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.' "

Julian Fellowes

" A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. "

Julian Fellowes

" We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty. "

Julian Fellowes

" We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them. "

Julian Fellowes

" My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful. "

Julian Fellowes

" The '20s are a very interesting period to me. "

Julian Fellowes

" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "

Julian Fellowes

" Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday. "

Julian Fellowes

" If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts. "

Julian Fellowes

" Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it. "

Julian Fellowes

" I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? "

Julian Fellowes

" I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time. "

Julian Fellowes

" I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. "

Julian Fellowes

" I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else. "

Julian Fellowes

" You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. "

Julian Fellowes

" To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character. "

Julian Fellowes

" Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. "

Julian Fellowes