As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

- Julian Jarrold

It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, …

- Julian Jarrold

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

- Julian Jarrold

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

- Julian Jarrold

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of…

- Julian Jarrold

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

- Julian Jarrold

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

- Julian Jarrold

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't …

- Julian Jarrold