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Kenneth Branagh

"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."

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Amber Hurdle

"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."

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Amber Hurdle

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

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Amber Hurdle

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

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Amber Hurdle

"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?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."

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Amber Hurdle

"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."

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Amber Hurdle

"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"

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Amber Hurdle

"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."

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Amber Hurdle

"You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."

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

Glory

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Kenneth Branagh
"If it's good art, it's good."

Art

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Kenneth Branagh
"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."

People

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Kenneth Branagh
"It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory."

People

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Kenneth Branagh
"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."

Experience

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Kenneth Branagh
"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."

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Kenneth Branagh
"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."

Career

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Kenneth Branagh
"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."

Animation

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Kenneth Branagh
"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."

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Kenneth Branagh
"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."

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