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" The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers. "
Kenneth Branagh
Glory
Sharpness
Image
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" You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different. "
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" The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements. "
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Out
Much
Exciting
" 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. "
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Film
Good
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" I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once. "
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Work
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" I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre. "
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Bones
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" I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?' "
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You
Book
" My definition of success is control. "
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Definition
Success
" I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off. "
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Off
Me
Him
" 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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Past
Choose
Done
" I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well. "
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Theatre
Music
Think
" I loved 'Kundun.' "
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Loved
" I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. "
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Tragic
Think
Figure
" In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. "
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Understand
Hands
Words
" I'm by no means an opera buff. "
Kenneth Branagh
Opera
Means
Buff
" 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. "
Kenneth Branagh
People
Dead
Dying
" I think in the wake of the domination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, everyone is now looking for a grand plan. "
Kenneth Branagh
Now
Plan
Think
" Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan. "
Kenneth Branagh
You
Always
Lucky
" 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
Audience
Play
Together
" I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure. "
Kenneth Branagh
Worst
Think
People
" I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet. "
Kenneth Branagh
Trying
Things
Guilty
" If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else. "
Kenneth Branagh
Brilliant
Done
Something
" Even in the case of a god, audiences - paradoxically - enjoy recognizing the human traits. "
Kenneth Branagh
God
Case
Enjoy
" The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case. "
Kenneth Branagh
Everything
Needs
Director
" A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre. "
Kenneth Branagh
Been
Theatre
Looking
" I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university. "
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University
Comprehensive
Go
" The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. "
Kenneth Branagh
Extraordinary
Elasticity
Shakespeare
" I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood. "
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Just
Accent
First
" There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling. "
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Work
Amazing
Country
" In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace. "
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World
Kind
Violence
" I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. "
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