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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. "

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. "

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" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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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" I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. "

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