Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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The records - what little we know about Shakespeare, including the records of the plays in his playhouse - were often the story of how quickly they came off if they didn't work. They had to move on. They were absolutely led by box office.
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My definition of success is control.
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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
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I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.
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One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
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I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.
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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 don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
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'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
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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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Do you know what I feel about Dr. Who's? I feel the same way as I do about the Bonds. I love them all. I love them all! I don't have favorites.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
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I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way.
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You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.
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I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.
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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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At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre.
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I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
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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.