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 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.
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
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.
I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.
If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.
I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?
Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.
I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
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.
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.
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.