Knows Quote by Harold Ramis

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen.

— Donald Wolfit

I've been lucky enough to do a tiny bit of Shakespeare onstage over the years.

— Adrian Dunbar

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

— Peter O'Toole

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done…

— John Schlesinger

Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on…

— Lauren Beukes

I found that the more I'd done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to…

— Tom Sturridge

Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the…

— Bruce Glover

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

— Terry Zwigoff

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was…

— Jiang Wen

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've…

— Vincent Kartheiser

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

— Amanda Schull

The best thing about doing a realistic film is that you have the freedom to deliver your lines as natural as possible without sticking…

— Biju Menon