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I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.
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One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
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I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.
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There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
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I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'
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Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.
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What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
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What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it.
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My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?'
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A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.
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I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.
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The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
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I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'
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I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.
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I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.
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For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
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If it's good art, it's good.
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'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.
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Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.
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I'm by no means an opera buff.
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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
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It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
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