Quotes from Kenneth Branagh

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

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.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

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

I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic.

Adults are just children who earn money.