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I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.
Kelly Asbury
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When you have a name actor, with a face that people recognise and a name that can go on posters or billboards and be able to appear on the talkshow circuit and tout the film, that's always a plus.
Kelly Asbury
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I think what's universal about the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' is every one has grown up and done something that was rebellious against their parents' wishes, be it love or something else.
Kelly Asbury
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Gnomes are supposed to be good luck in a garden, protecting against pests and diseases. A mythic gatekeeper, in the way a Kitchen Witch is.
Kelly Asbury
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Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
Kelly Asbury
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Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.
Kelly Asbury
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What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That's what I feel I do.
Kelly Asbury
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I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television.
Kelly Asbury
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Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.
Kelly Asbury
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I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius.
Kelly Asbury
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I'm a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: 'Goonies,' 'E.T.,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Star Wars.'
Kelly Asbury
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I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.
Kelly Asbury
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I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Kelly Asbury
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Certainly in the case of 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' if it makes children or adults a little more interested in Shakespeare, there's nothing wrong with that!
Kelly Asbury
