Kelly Asbury

I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang…

— Kelly Asbury

Certainly in the case of 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' if it makes children or adults a little more interested in Shakespeare, there's nothing…

— Kelly Asbury

Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot of animated features, there are a…

— Kelly Asbury

Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.

— Kelly Asbury

I want the audience to walk out of the theater feeling they got their money's worth. Every movie that I enjoy, I…

— Kelly Asbury

The way I choose voice talent is I don't let them tell me who the actor is.

— Kelly Asbury

What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?

— Kelly Asbury

I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.

— Kelly Asbury

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

— Kelly Asbury

What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel…

— Kelly Asbury

I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for…

— Kelly Asbury

I wanted to create a world that presented the Smurfs with obstacles and challenges and really put them in a fish-out-of-water situation…

— Kelly Asbury

It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage.

— Kelly Asbury

If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'

— Kelly Asbury

I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive.

— Kelly Asbury

My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's…

— Kelly Asbury

On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

— Kelly Asbury

There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but there's definitely been a…

— Kelly Asbury

Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.

— Kelly Asbury

Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an…

— Kelly Asbury

Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a…

— Kelly Asbury

I actually applied at Hanna-Barbera to work on 'The Smurfs' when I got laid off for a brief period of time from…

— Kelly Asbury

Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even…

— Kelly Asbury

The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can…

— Kelly Asbury

I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius.

— Kelly Asbury