Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh is a Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays, including Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, and As You Like It...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth10 December 1960
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
Kenneth Branagh quotes about
What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.
The director needs to be in command on set because everything crumbles if that's not the case.
The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'
The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time.
Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.
One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.
'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.