Julian Fellowes says : "There must have been thousands of people doing these jobs who didn't particularly like it - it was just a job - and I think that it is always quite nice to be reminded of this slightly strange situation where you are living your life like a family but around you in the attics and kitchen are people who are always there," "They can walk into the room at any time but have no emotional connection with you at all. It's quite a strange concept which I think is interesting to explore"

belfasttelegraph Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:30:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : "Period dramas have to tell us about ourselves to catch on," "There is something quite interesting when you demonstrate that human nature doesn't alter. Crinolines and carriages may change but audiences see people with impulses they recognise, making choices they would make. The fact that those characters are in a top hat or a tiara doesn't make any difference"

belfasttelegraph Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:30:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes told : “He really did change the game,”

themirror Friday, March 20, 2020 8:14:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

expressindia Friday, March 20, 2020 7:42:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “The whole reason the Football Association was formed was so upper class people who’d learnt the game at school could play against one another under a set of agreed rules,”

irishexaminer Friday, March 20, 2020 12:42:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

suntimes Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:59:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

citynews-ca Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:25:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

missoulian Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:44:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

eagletribune Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:27:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “Fortunes were made. That put the old guard on the back foot”

themirror Tuesday, March 10, 2020 2:30:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “There’s this extraordinary anomaly that football, originally devised by public schoolboys at Eton, to be played by their own rules, becomes this game that dominates the world. As the game spread, it became less tenable that the Etonians could reserve football for themselves. The clubs that rose in the industrial Midlands and the north become the true representatives of the game”

observer Monday, March 9, 2020 8:32:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “There’s this extraordinary anomaly that football, originally devised by public schoolboys at Eton, to be played by their own rules, becomes this game that dominates the world. As the game spread, it became less tenable that the Etonians could reserve football for themselves. The clubs that rose in the industrial Midlands and the north become the true representatives of the game”

guardian Sunday, March 8, 2020 3:47:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “I didn’t know that there was this class war at the beginning of the game. The fact that the working class essentially won it changed the shape of the game and gave it to the world”

telegraph Thursday, February 27, 2020 10:13:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes agreeing : “For me now to say, ‘Absolutely, definitely this is it, there will never be another film,’ I would just be foolish. Because you end up eating your words, you know? "I mean, I wouldn’t mind making another film. We were very happy making this one. So let’s see what happens”

heart Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:29:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “It catches you out, and you suddenly have a spasm,”

irishmirror Monday, November 4, 2019 11:37:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “He was very good, and said it was essential tremor and was incurable,”

irishmirror Monday, November 4, 2019 11:37:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes explains : “I didn’t want it to be too dewy-eyed and thought having a slightly sad sub-plot for Carson where he could no longer pour the wine made it less sugary,”

irishmirror Monday, November 4, 2019 11:37:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "We just have to see if there's an appetite for it, if there's a taste for it, and see where we would want to go with the different stories,"

business-standard Wednesday, September 25, 2019 3:23:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Maggie Smith ) : “Maggie demands great moments in that you write for her with the knowledge that every time you give her a one-liner or whatever, she will hit the bullseye with it,” “You can’t just have her in a scene”

click2houston Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:44:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Imelda Staunton ) : “Imelda was our first choice and we were very glad to get her,” “We knew from the start that we’d have fun seeing these two queens of the theater knock the daylights out of each other”

click2houston Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:44:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes explains ( about Tom Branson ) : “I realized, when I was reviewing series six, that Tom Branson was the only one that wasn’t neatly tied up and that gave me the opportunity to have a love story in our film with one of our long-running and favorite characters,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Tom Branson ) : “Tom’s journey in life has been so distinctive that it seemed important to find him someone that was faced by a similar experience and they would have an understanding of each other that most people outside their predicament would not and from that, really, the Lucy story grew,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes adds : “I very much wanted to pair him up with someone who would make him not feel isolated. Lucy understands him in a way that even Mary and Edith would not,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “The main thing was to say was even if he was at last given a moment of romance, which after six years he’s kind of earned, even then, it didn’t mean being gay in 1927 was easy,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes explains ( about Thomas Barrow ) : “That was part of the revelation with him, there were people he could just relax with,” “Thomas has never connected with a community like himself. That’s the principle message”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "They were doing shows on Broadway, and movies and series in Hollywood, and plays in London and God knows what," "And I think that was a logistical nightmare"

CBSnews Sunday, September 22, 2019 5:44:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "A lot of it is luck," "You luck out, and you get the right combinations all down the line, and people keep coming back for more. And I really think it's as simple as that"

CBSnews Sunday, September 22, 2019 5:44:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes tells : “To be perfectly honest, having thought the final episode of the sixth series was the end of the whole thing, which I completely did, I then thought the movie was definitely the end of the whole thing,”

click2houston Saturday, September 21, 2019 1:16:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “The house, which is an extraordinary house, has never shown as well as on the big screen,” “That first shot swoops down and I felt that was really the house deciding to be a movie star instead of just the television star”

WashingtonPost Friday, September 20, 2019 4:07:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said ( about Queen Mary ) : “You have to alter the structure to have a narrative that has a central unity,” “In a series you don’t. One story is Mary trying out a new boyfriend and another is Daisy going for a walk in the village and buying an apple. They don’t have to have any interconnection at all. They don’t have to finish in one episode, they can just dribble on through the whole season”

WashingtonPost Friday, September 20, 2019 4:07:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Downton Abbey ) : "The Downton film is so everyone can take two hours off Brexit!"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 11:05:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : "It was very male-dominated (in the 1920s) but there were just as many intelligent women and they had to find ambitious ways (to get on). That creates a tension. Mary is trying for a balance between being part of her society and doing what she likes. That tension wouldn't exist today. Jim adds: "We show the 1920s in a romantic light but life would have been hard for the servants. Lord Grantham was the most benign employer. There was no safety net"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 11:05:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Downton Abbey ) : "The Downton film is so everyone can take two hours off Brexit!"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 3:29:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : "It was very male-dominated (in the 1920s) but there were just as many intelligent women and they had to find ambitious ways (to get on). That creates a tension. Mary is trying for a balance between being part of her society and doing what she likes. That tension wouldn't exist today. Jim adds: "We show the 1920s in a romantic light but life would have been hard for the servants. Lord Grantham was the most benign employer. There was no safety net"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 3:29:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, and in the end, it'll be very much down to how the film is received, if they like it and if they enjoy it. And if we feel there is an appetite for more, then – maybe,"

ibtimes-uk Thursday, September 12, 2019 11:07:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "I am always struck with the commitment and passion of Northern Ireland's young people and I encourage everyone to get behind the 30th Cinemagic Festival. "

belfasttelegraph Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:02:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes dodal : "Jezdívali po různých hrabstvích a já si říkal, to bylo tenkrát určitě něco, co každého vzrušilo a co by mohlo být dobrým startovním bodem,"

ceskenoviny-en Monday, September 9, 2019 9:23:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “I was looking for a storyline that affected everyone,” “We used to do that in the Christmas specials as well, where they went to Scotland — or wherever — and it would affect the servants as much as it would affect the family. Everyone is involved in this single event and all of their stories are coming off from this single event like branches from a trunk. I wanted something that was exciting-slash-disrupting for both the family and the servants and the local village”

chicagotribune Thursday, August 29, 2019 12:51:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes notes : “They were the two that weren’t, in that sense, settled,” “I had a reluctance to disturb what had been established”

chicagotribune Thursday, August 29, 2019 12:51:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “that made it easy to write for this character,”

orlandosentinel Wednesday, August 14, 2019 1:42:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "I feel very privileged to be making The Gilded Age with HBO and Universal Television,"

upi Saturday, May 4, 2019 7:52:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes told : “I’d been drowning in lady’s maids and footmen for so long, I was absolutely delighted to do it,”

bostonglobe Friday, February 15, 2019 12:47:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “Dewey teaches the kids to have the confidence to be themselves, and he uses playing in the band to give them a sense of self,” “He is incapable of resisting once he sees clearly that he can help these kids, and he knows how to pull them together. At first, it grows out of his desire to enter the Battle of the Bands. But then he starts to catch their own enthusiasm”

bostonglobe Friday, February 8, 2019 3:39:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes told : “We’ve got lots of very good conversations in that direction,”

msn-uk Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:17:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “It is absurd to think that you can govern a country by using traitors to release protected information,”

icenews Sunday, November 13, 2016 1:07:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : "There must have been thousands of people doing these jobs who didn't particularly like it - it was just a job - and I think that it is always quite nice to be reminded of this slightly strange situation where you are living your life like a family but around you in the attics and kitchen are people who are always there," "They can walk into the room at any time but have no emotional connection with you at all. It's quite a strange concept which I think is interesting to explore"

belfasttelegraph Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:30:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : "Period dramas have to tell us about ourselves to catch on," "There is something quite interesting when you demonstrate that human nature doesn't alter. Crinolines and carriages may change but audiences see people with impulses they recognise, making choices they would make. The fact that those characters are in a top hat or a tiara doesn't make any difference"

belfasttelegraph Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:30:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes told : “He really did change the game,”

themirror Friday, March 20, 2020 8:14:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

expressindia Friday, March 20, 2020 7:42:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “The whole reason the Football Association was formed was so upper class people who’d learnt the game at school could play against one another under a set of agreed rules,”

irishexaminer Friday, March 20, 2020 12:42:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

suntimes Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:59:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

citynews-ca Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:25:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

missoulian Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:44:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “There are certain sports that cut right through society and appeal to people at every level. And that seems to me to be a wholly good thing,”

eagletribune Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:27:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “Fortunes were made. That put the old guard on the back foot”

themirror Tuesday, March 10, 2020 2:30:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “There’s this extraordinary anomaly that football, originally devised by public schoolboys at Eton, to be played by their own rules, becomes this game that dominates the world. As the game spread, it became less tenable that the Etonians could reserve football for themselves. The clubs that rose in the industrial Midlands and the north become the true representatives of the game”

observer Monday, March 9, 2020 8:32:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “There’s this extraordinary anomaly that football, originally devised by public schoolboys at Eton, to be played by their own rules, becomes this game that dominates the world. As the game spread, it became less tenable that the Etonians could reserve football for themselves. The clubs that rose in the industrial Midlands and the north become the true representatives of the game”

guardian Sunday, March 8, 2020 3:47:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “I didn’t know that there was this class war at the beginning of the game. The fact that the working class essentially won it changed the shape of the game and gave it to the world”

telegraph Thursday, February 27, 2020 10:13:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes agreeing : “For me now to say, ‘Absolutely, definitely this is it, there will never be another film,’ I would just be foolish. Because you end up eating your words, you know? "I mean, I wouldn’t mind making another film. We were very happy making this one. So let’s see what happens”

heart Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:29:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “It catches you out, and you suddenly have a spasm,”

irishmirror Monday, November 4, 2019 11:37:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “He was very good, and said it was essential tremor and was incurable,”

irishmirror Monday, November 4, 2019 11:37:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes explains : “I didn’t want it to be too dewy-eyed and thought having a slightly sad sub-plot for Carson where he could no longer pour the wine made it less sugary,”

irishmirror Monday, November 4, 2019 11:37:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "We just have to see if there's an appetite for it, if there's a taste for it, and see where we would want to go with the different stories,"

business-standard Wednesday, September 25, 2019 3:23:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Maggie Smith ) : “Maggie demands great moments in that you write for her with the knowledge that every time you give her a one-liner or whatever, she will hit the bullseye with it,” “You can’t just have her in a scene”

click2houston Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:44:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Imelda Staunton ) : “Imelda was our first choice and we were very glad to get her,” “We knew from the start that we’d have fun seeing these two queens of the theater knock the daylights out of each other”

click2houston Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:44:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes explains ( about Tom Branson ) : “I realized, when I was reviewing series six, that Tom Branson was the only one that wasn’t neatly tied up and that gave me the opportunity to have a love story in our film with one of our long-running and favorite characters,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Tom Branson ) : “Tom’s journey in life has been so distinctive that it seemed important to find him someone that was faced by a similar experience and they would have an understanding of each other that most people outside their predicament would not and from that, really, the Lucy story grew,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes adds : “I very much wanted to pair him up with someone who would make him not feel isolated. Lucy understands him in a way that even Mary and Edith would not,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “The main thing was to say was even if he was at last given a moment of romance, which after six years he’s kind of earned, even then, it didn’t mean being gay in 1927 was easy,”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes explains ( about Thomas Barrow ) : “That was part of the revelation with him, there were people he could just relax with,” “Thomas has never connected with a community like himself. That’s the principle message”

click2houston Monday, September 23, 2019 9:46:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "They were doing shows on Broadway, and movies and series in Hollywood, and plays in London and God knows what," "And I think that was a logistical nightmare"

CBSnews Sunday, September 22, 2019 5:44:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "A lot of it is luck," "You luck out, and you get the right combinations all down the line, and people keep coming back for more. And I really think it's as simple as that"

CBSnews Sunday, September 22, 2019 5:44:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes tells : “To be perfectly honest, having thought the final episode of the sixth series was the end of the whole thing, which I completely did, I then thought the movie was definitely the end of the whole thing,”

click2houston Saturday, September 21, 2019 1:16:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “The house, which is an extraordinary house, has never shown as well as on the big screen,” “That first shot swoops down and I felt that was really the house deciding to be a movie star instead of just the television star”

WashingtonPost Friday, September 20, 2019 4:07:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said ( about Queen Mary ) : “You have to alter the structure to have a narrative that has a central unity,” “In a series you don’t. One story is Mary trying out a new boyfriend and another is Daisy going for a walk in the village and buying an apple. They don’t have to have any interconnection at all. They don’t have to finish in one episode, they can just dribble on through the whole season”

WashingtonPost Friday, September 20, 2019 4:07:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Downton Abbey ) : "The Downton film is so everyone can take two hours off Brexit!"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 11:05:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : "It was very male-dominated (in the 1920s) but there were just as many intelligent women and they had to find ambitious ways (to get on). That creates a tension. Mary is trying for a balance between being part of her society and doing what she likes. That tension wouldn't exist today. Jim adds: "We show the 1920s in a romantic light but life would have been hard for the servants. Lord Grantham was the most benign employer. There was no safety net"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 11:05:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says ( about Downton Abbey ) : "The Downton film is so everyone can take two hours off Brexit!"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 3:29:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : "It was very male-dominated (in the 1920s) but there were just as many intelligent women and they had to find ambitious ways (to get on). That creates a tension. Mary is trying for a balance between being part of her society and doing what she likes. That tension wouldn't exist today. Jim adds: "We show the 1920s in a romantic light but life would have been hard for the servants. Lord Grantham was the most benign employer. There was no safety net"

bbc Friday, September 13, 2019 3:29:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, and in the end, it'll be very much down to how the film is received, if they like it and if they enjoy it. And if we feel there is an appetite for more, then – maybe,"

ibtimes-uk Thursday, September 12, 2019 11:07:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "I am always struck with the commitment and passion of Northern Ireland's young people and I encourage everyone to get behind the 30th Cinemagic Festival. "

belfasttelegraph Tuesday, September 10, 2019 9:02:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes dodal : "Jezdívali po různých hrabstvích a já si říkal, to bylo tenkrát určitě něco, co každého vzrušilo a co by mohlo být dobrým startovním bodem,"

ceskenoviny-en Monday, September 9, 2019 9:23:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “I was looking for a storyline that affected everyone,” “We used to do that in the Christmas specials as well, where they went to Scotland — or wherever — and it would affect the servants as much as it would affect the family. Everyone is involved in this single event and all of their stories are coming off from this single event like branches from a trunk. I wanted something that was exciting-slash-disrupting for both the family and the servants and the local village”

chicagotribune Thursday, August 29, 2019 12:51:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes notes : “They were the two that weren’t, in that sense, settled,” “I had a reluctance to disturb what had been established”

chicagotribune Thursday, August 29, 2019 12:51:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “that made it easy to write for this character,”

orlandosentinel Wednesday, August 14, 2019 1:42:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : "I feel very privileged to be making The Gilded Age with HBO and Universal Television,"

upi Saturday, May 4, 2019 7:52:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes told : “I’d been drowning in lady’s maids and footmen for so long, I was absolutely delighted to do it,”

bostonglobe Friday, February 15, 2019 12:47:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes says : “Dewey teaches the kids to have the confidence to be themselves, and he uses playing in the band to give them a sense of self,” “He is incapable of resisting once he sees clearly that he can help these kids, and he knows how to pull them together. At first, it grows out of his desire to enter the Battle of the Bands. But then he starts to catch their own enthusiasm”

bostonglobe Friday, February 8, 2019 3:39:00 AM EAT

Julian Fellowes told : “We’ve got lots of very good conversations in that direction,”

msn-uk Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:17:00 PM EAT

Julian Fellowes said : “It is absurd to think that you can govern a country by using traitors to release protected information,”

icenews Sunday, November 13, 2016 1:07:00 AM EAT