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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.   
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	I want the audience to walk out of the theater feeling they got their money's worth. Every movie that I enjoy, I leave the theater with something to take with me.   
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	Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.   
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	I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television.   
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	Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.   
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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.   
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	I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius.   
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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.   
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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.   
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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!   
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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.   
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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.'   
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	I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.   
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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.'   
