Quotes from Julian Fellowes

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.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

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

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

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

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

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

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

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

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

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

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.