Tag Archives: Julian Fellowes

To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character. Julian Fellowes

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry – which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. 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

There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community. Julian Fellowes

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 maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years. Julian Fellowes

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. Julian Fellowes

I just don't believe in generalisations. Julian Fellowes

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms. Julian Fellowes

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. Julian Fellowes

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