If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else. Kenneth Branagh More Quotes by Kenneth Branagh More Quotes From Kenneth Branagh I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it that way, would be visible, but she never played for sympathy and I really admired that about her, so she's just there, she just is and uncompromisingly. Kenneth Branagh broken would-be heart I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so it was an imaginative surprise from my Disney family to pull me out of the hat, as it were in Cinderella. Kenneth Branagh couple done boys If it's good art, it's good. Kenneth Branagh good-art ifs art There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling. Kenneth Branagh feelings country people I'm basically quite a cheerful person. Kenneth Branagh cheerful persons 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. Kenneth Branagh moscow cities littles I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet. Kenneth Branagh carpet guilty trying 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. Kenneth Branagh naughty kids people I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts Kenneth Branagh competition creative race I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me Kenneth Branagh space home ideas 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. Kenneth Branagh girl waiting character 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 people and I think that is some version of a classical world. Kenneth Branagh couple house thinking I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was. Kenneth Branagh work-out trying people Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. Kenneth Branagh different chance television Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else. Kenneth Branagh keys easy sometimes The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers. Kenneth Branagh sharpness offers glory Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil. Kenneth Branagh life-and-death men profound Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it. Kenneth Branagh ghost jobs long We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. Kenneth Branagh stupid self people So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. Kenneth Branagh magic team play
