197 Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.