Juliet Landau Quotes

While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a lot to explore in my career that could take me back to another time. A period piece would be an incredible game of dress-up, too.

I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

I would love to do a British period drama.

I really love period pieces.

When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they're in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about 'The Knick' at all.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

I've always wanted to do a period piece.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

I've never done a period piece. That's something I'd be really interested in doing.

I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that.

I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.

Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and yet at the same time so real. You can open a drawer on set, and even though the camera never sees what's inside, it'll be filled with genuine 1940s documents.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.