Quotes by Kenneth Branagh

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 audiences imagination.

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

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.

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and dont get so worked up about things.

My definition of success is control.

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and hes musical because he constantly refers to settings where theres singing and dancing.

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.