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 other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?
There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.
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 love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.
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.
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.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
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.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.
I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.