Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford and Deputy Lieutenant,is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several Sunday Times best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film Gosford Park, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning British television series Downton Abbey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth7 August 1949
CityCairo, Egypt
I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
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.
Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.
Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.
Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
War makes early risers of us all.
What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”
Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.
You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.