Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.
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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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I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
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One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
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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 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 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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My definition of success is control.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
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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 don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
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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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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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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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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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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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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 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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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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'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'
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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.
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The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
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The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.