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In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

Julian Fellowes

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.

Julian Fellowes

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.

Julian Fellowes

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

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

Julian Fellowes

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.'

Julian Fellowes

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Julian Fellowes

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

Julian Fellowes

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

Julian Fellowes

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

Julian Fellowes