Kenneth Branagh Quotes
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What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
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My definition of success is control.
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Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.
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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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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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The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
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I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
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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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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'm always interested in contemporary fiction.
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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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'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
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The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
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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 think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'
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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 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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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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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 was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.
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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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Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits.