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" I'm interested in creating new work. "
Kenneth Branagh
Interested
New
Creating
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" I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.' "
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" I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you. "
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" Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. "
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" I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new. "
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" I'm by no means an opera buff. "
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" The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers. "
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" Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. "
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" I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way. "
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" I loved 'Kundun.' "
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" Do you know what I feel about Dr. Who's? I feel the same way as I do about the Bonds. I love them all. I love them all! I don't have favorites. "
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" 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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Music
" It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. "
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You
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" I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university. "
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" Life is surreal and beautiful. "
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Beautiful
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" A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past. "
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Past
In The Past
" I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan. "
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Am
I Am
" 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. "
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Been
You
" Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently. "
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Fast-Paced
" I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing. "
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Value
Connections
Health
" I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. "
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Live
English
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" I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. "
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Always
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" Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that. "
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" My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?' "
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