197 Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

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.

I watched a lot of musicals growing up.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

I think people half know it but don't know it, you know? I think when you see the whole thing, there's just such a slew of new things there. You see them in a different light.

We wanted to do something that was a little closer to our own century and yet also was a world in which you could believe that people spoke in a slightly different way.

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.

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.

This is a very exciting departure for me as a filmmaker,

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?