Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think it's really important to remake things. If you never remake the classics, no one would know Shakespeare.
I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.
Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.
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