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" I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father. "

Julian Fellowes

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" The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us. "

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" I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed. "

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" 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. "

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" I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give. "

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" My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. "

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" You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years. "

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" Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera. "

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

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" Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. "

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" 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. "

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

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" What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area. "

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" I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World. "

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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. "

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" I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does. "

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

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

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" My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible. "

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" 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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" I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. "

Julian Fellowes

" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "

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" Most of us don't want to be outsiders. "

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" You know, I'm not a revolutionary. "

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" I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind. "

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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. "

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" I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off. "

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