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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. "

Julian Fellowes

Culture

Nice

Problems

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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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Believe

Just

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Lucky

You

" 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. "