Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Across all Cinderella versions it was clear that the 21st century was not very much in evidence, particularly in the character of Cinderella so it seemed, it felt actually as though it hadn’t been done for quite some time, not with the kind of lushness that we could do it with, with an absolute removal of the passivity of Cinderella and finding an amusing way, a lighthearted but significant way of making her proactive and not a girl who’s life is about waiting for a bloke.

Character

Girl

Waiting

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.

Kids

Naughty

People

Actually I think ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

Dream

Night

Thinking

Adults are just children who earn money.

Adults

Children

Family

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

Nice

Tea

Want

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

Aging

Fearlessness

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

I Can

Tell Me I Can T

Want

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

Down And

Lying

Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It’s one of the things I’m fascinated by. It’s why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.

Cameras

People

Trying

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it’s a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

Dark

Peculiar

Sometimes

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Accepting

Acting

Actors

Adults

Aging

Air

Art

Believe

Blood

Boys

Breathing

Brilliant

Brits

Broken

Cameras

Carpet

Chance

Character

Cheerful

Children

Cities

Competition

Contradictory

Country

Couple

Creative

Cutting

Dark

Definition Of Success

Definitions

Different

Directors

Done

Down And

Dream

Dying

Easy

Elasticity

Elements

Extraordinary

Family

Fearlessness

Feelings

Figures

Film

Fire

Foul

Friendship

Fun

Ghost

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Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

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.

Actually I think ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

Adults are just children who earn money.

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It’s one of the things I’m fascinated by. It’s why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it’s a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

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