Branagh, who recently helmed the re-make of "Sleuth" and an HBO adaptation of William Shakespeare's "As You Like It," will soon be seen in front of the camera in the Tom Cruise movie, "Valkyrie."

"It's always a relief and an enjoyable contrast to being the head of a logistical exercise, which directing partly is," Branagh told UPI in New York recently. "You use, I suppose, different parts of your creative makeup. But I like doing both… I'm done (with 'Valkyrie') and had a great time doing it and, (like 'Sleuth,') it also felt like a very good team."