Latest Kenneth Branagh Quotes from Interviews

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• Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Jobs, Long, Ghost

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

• After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Nice, Tea, Want

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

• Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Philosophical, Preparation, Intellectual

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

• Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Men, Profound, Life And Death

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

• For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, World, Littles

  "CINDERELLA Interview: Kenneth Branagh". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

• The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Passion, People, Done

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

• It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit recently, and in Russia, they completely believe they own this tale. And in Italy, they feel it absolutely is part of who they are. There is a timeless web to it.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Believe, Russia, Years

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

• Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Two, Royal Wedding, People

  "Actor-director Kenneth Branagh". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2011.

• Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Dark, Peculiar, Sometimes

  "Kenneth Branagh Interview WALLANDER II: FACELESS KILLERS; Reveals He’s Screening THOR Tonight for the Studio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2010.

• I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Air, Ideas

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2010.

• When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Hands, Acting, Directors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2010.

• Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Dream, Night, Thinking

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit going around or something because you get that blood sugar [dropping] thing, so it's curious because that's in your mind at the same time as you're about to say, 'I think it's about the humanity and the depth of feeling and we need to feel [Cinderella] soul expand and by the way, more cheese for the people in the back.'

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Blood, People

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• I think the truth is the Marvel fiefdom exists very independently inside the Disney world, inside the Disney universe. They're not resistant to that kind of thing but they have their, you know there is a whole sort of machine energy and momentum that is the sort of creative drive behind the whole universe that has a big impact on the individual films. I'm glad those scenes got out there. And we've got a few interesting deleted scenes on this.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Impact, Interesting

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• Everything is important, but there is a weight to these big or expected things and then there is the logistics of them and it's trying to find, while you worry about for instance the ballroom scene, how do you get 500 people to go to the loo in corsets and don't cost you an hour and how do you remember while you're organizing all that to take a breath and say, 'Well the scene is about all of that and it's about Prince hand on the small of Cinderella back as well' and we need time to do that properly as well.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Hands, People, Worry

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it that way, would be visible, but she never played for sympathy and I really admired that about her, so she's just there, she just is and uncompromisingly.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Heart, Broken, Would Be

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's wings.' She had to have wings and [costume designer] Sandy Powell didn't want wings to begin with but had to be talked around, but that was fun.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Fun, Wings, Want

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating 'Cinderella' and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2105.

• Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn't been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who's life is about waiting for a bloke.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Girl, Character, Waiting

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating 'Cinderella' and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so it was an imaginative surprise from my Disney family to pull me out of the hat, as it were in Cinderella.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Couple, Boys, Done

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in people and I think that is some version of a classical world.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Couple, Thinking, House

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating 'Cinderella' and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

• I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Work Out, Trying

  Source: screenrant.com

• Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Different, Television, Chance

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 22, 2012.

• I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Elements, Film

• Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Keys, Sometimes, Easy

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

• Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Trying, Cameras

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.