Julian Fellowes Quotes
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Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.
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I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.
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The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.
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One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.
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I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?
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You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.
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I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
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To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
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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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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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What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.
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If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
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In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.
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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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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.
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The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
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For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
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I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.
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The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."
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I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.
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If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.
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Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?
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Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
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What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.
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I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
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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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My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
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Most of us don't want to be outsiders.
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I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
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He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.
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