Quotes from Julian Jarrold

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.