When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
From Julian Fellowes
I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.
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 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.
What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'
Most of us don't want to be outsiders.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
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.
We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.
You know, I'm not a revolutionary.
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