People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.” — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored one again, that all trace of their power over us is gone? How often one has resisted the freedom-giving knowledge that they have actually begun to irritate us as that seems like the worst kind of disloyalty to… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share
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… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
