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" 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. "

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" There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. "

Julian Fellowes

I Am

Feel

Men

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Julian Fellowes

Success

Never

" 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. "

" I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. "

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

" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

Julian Fellowes

Believe

Just

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Father

Parents

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "