One of the things that you’re not really in control of – apart from everything – is your smell. – Julian Fellowes
I think the reason why people love ‘Downton Abbey’ is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed. – Julian Fellowes
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. – Julian Fellowes
There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. – Julian Fellowes
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. – Julian Fellowes
What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two. – Julian Fellowes
The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us. – 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 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
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
My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn’t mean they have no nasty side, or that they don’t have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don’t think most people are trying to be horrible. – Julian Fellowes
I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people’s lives and what information these details give. – Julian Fellowes
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it. – Julian Fellowes
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don’t agree. – Julian Fellowes
Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, ‘I’m loving this, but golly, it’s going at the speed of a snail.’ – Julian Fellowes
I think every period – except for the 14th century, or something – has some merits. – Julian Fellowes
