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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
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"I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it."
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
"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."
"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."
"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
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