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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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" 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. "

Julian Fellowes

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

Julian Fellowes

Child

Giving

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

" When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. "

" What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

Julian Fellowes

Boundaries

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

Julian Fellowes

Believe

Just

" 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. "

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

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

" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "

" 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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You

" 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. "

" 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. "

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