Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out. Julian Fellowes More Quotes by Julian Fellowes More Quotes From Julian Fellowes 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. Julian Fellowes fever airports breakfast For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban. Julian Fellowes welcome members directors A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. Julian Fellowes actors impossible needs 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 mean people thinking 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 three america years When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can. Julian Fellowes siege lays desperate 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 reader book thinking 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 giving people thinking My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful. Julian Fellowes childhood successful house 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 watches years thinking The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. Julian Fellowes icons house country I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. Julian Fellowes class-system class thinking We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them. Julian Fellowes party nice night 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 parent mother father The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him." Julian Fellowes party numbers men I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? Julian Fellowes news media watches When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding. Julian Fellowes insecure cutting jobs If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. Julian Fellowes wells personality might No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all. Julian Fellowes states humans people Most of us don't want to be outsiders. Julian Fellowes outsiders want
