Julian Fellowes Quotes

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

If you want to write for films or TV, you must go to Hollywood.

Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had.

I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.

I just bought a building in Los Angeles - on Sunset Boulevard. It's a building that was owned by Charlie Chaplin. It's going to be a sound- stage for videos; for full-scale productions.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

Apart from my film, I am producing TV serials and plan to make more films, too. Mine is not going to be one-film-a-year production company as such.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.