Julian Fellowes Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.”

“I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.”

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

“I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World.”

“I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.”

“I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.”

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

“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.”

“I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?”

“I just don't believe in generalisations.”