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There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

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In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

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I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

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Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

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The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.

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I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

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One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.

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I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.

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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.

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We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

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People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

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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.

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Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.

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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.'

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The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

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Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

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For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

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I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.

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To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

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Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

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I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

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When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

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You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

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I just don't believe in generalisations.

Julian Fellowes

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

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What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

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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.

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I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

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