-
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 -
I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television.
Kelly Asbury
-
Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
Kelly Asbury -
I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all.
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 I do.
Kelly Asbury -
Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.
Kelly Asbury -
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 -
I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius.
Kelly Asbury
-
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 -
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 -
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 -
I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.
Kelly Asbury -
I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.
Kelly Asbury -
I'm a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: 'Goonies,' 'E.T.,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Star Wars.'
Kelly Asbury