Kenneth Branagh Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Foul, Brits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Truth, Reality, Opinion

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• I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cheerful, Persons

  "TV review: Wallander; Shakespeare Uncovered; Henry IV Part 1" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2012.

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• 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.

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• I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Voice, People, Inspire

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• If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Done, Brilliant, Versions

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

  Kenneth Branagh

  Glory, Sharpness, Offers

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• If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cities, Moscow, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Kids, Naughty, People

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• I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

  Kenneth Branagh

  Race, Creative, Competition

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• I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

  Kenneth Branagh

  Home, Ideas, Space

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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