178 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

War makes early risers of us all.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

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.

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.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

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.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.