The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
Kenneth Branagh

If it's good art, it's good.
Kenneth Branagh

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Kenneth Branagh

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
Kenneth Branagh

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.
Kenneth Branagh

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.
Kenneth Branagh

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.
Kenneth Branagh

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