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I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

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.

I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.