Hamlet Quotables

Two of the Special Features accompanying Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet on DVD are a promotional video from the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and a featurette entitled To Be on Camera:  A History with Hamlet.  The former is a short introduction to the film.  The latter is less a history of film versions of Hamlet than it is a history of this particular film version.  It includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, some of which is repeated from the DVD film introduction.

Within both features are several quotes relating to Hamlet in general.  Some of them are collected below.

• "There's so many interpretations of what it could be...."  (Billy Crystal)
• "It is constantly fascinating.  It is constantly capable of rediscovery."  (Lord Richard Attenborough)
• "There is so much there."  (Kate Winslet)
• "You can play it in a million ways."  (Sir John Gielgud)
• "There will never ever be anything remotely like it."  (Richard Briers)
• The role of Hamlet is "a hoop through which every actor must sooner or later jump."  (Kenneth Branagh)