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
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.
Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.
Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.
If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.
What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.
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.
I just don't believe in generalisations.
I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.
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.