Kenneth Branagh Quotes

One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.

Ambitious of vision and swooping of camera, 'I, Frankenstein' is no 'I, Robot,' let alone 'I, Claudius,' but it's definitely watchable on a cold Jan. evening or, a few months from now, on your I, Pad.

My favorite classic novel may be 'The Invisible Man.' It's smart and genuinely funny. Otherwise, my favorite character is probably Frankenstein's Monster/Frankenstein the Monster.

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

I'm a Stephen King fanatic.

Shakespeare is global - of course he can be shared.

When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before Christmas' stuff. I saw 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times.

I think it was in sixth grade, though, when I picked up my first Stephen King book, which was 'It,' that knocked me over and terrified me for years. Then I never went back. I had to own every Stephen King book and read them at least three times. They would terrify me completely, but I couldn't stop. That became my preferred source of fiction.

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

What I have that's special in my music is substance. It's music that people can really relate to. I know I'm gonna rap something that somebody has already been through in their life, something that they will understand.

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.