Julian Fellowes Quotes

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

Making a film is a challenge.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.