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" There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary. "

Kenneth Branagh

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" My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people. "

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" What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively simple tale, but I've heard nothing but people drawing all different things out of it. "

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" I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.' "

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" 'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. "

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" I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan. "

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" I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later. "

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Looking Forward

" I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published. "

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

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" I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance. "

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" 'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.' "

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" In the case of 'Jack Ryan,' it was a huge collaboration, and I enjoyed it very much, and most of all, I want the audience to enjoy it, too. I want them to feel immersed in this world. "

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" For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed. "

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" I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far. "

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" Being Irish, I always had this love of words. "

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

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" I'm by no means an opera buff. "

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" 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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" 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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" I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. "

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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. "

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" In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace. "

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" 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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" There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them. "

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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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" My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination. "

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