Justin Kurzel Quotes

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.

I wish I'd played Coriolanus.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.

King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.