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
At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.
A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.
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.
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.
I think people half know it but don't know it, you know? I think when you see the whole thing, there's just such a slew of new things there. You see them in a different light.
I watched a lot of musicals growing up.
The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.
I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in p eopleand I think that is some version of a classical world.
A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have.