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" I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance. "

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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. "

Julian Fellowes

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms. "

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

" The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. "

" In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people. "

" I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared. "

" 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

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" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you. "

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

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

Julian Fellowes

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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. "

" One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell. "

" My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations. "

Julian Fellowes

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

" I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode. "

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

" 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. "

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

Julian Fellowes

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