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" A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories. "
Me
Think
Good
" Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot of animated features, there are a lot of writers who don't get credited. It's the policy at Disney, for instance, in deciding who gets credit. It depends on the writer's contract, so many things. "
Credit
Think
Serve
" 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! "
Wrong
Nothing
More
" 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. "
Head
Film
Artist
" Films like 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Shrek' are hits because they hit on different levels with different age groups. Striking that balance is what I strive for. But I won't know if I've done it until the audience sees it. "
Age
Balance
Done
" 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. "
Good Luck
Good
Kitchen
" I actually applied at Hanna-Barbera to work on 'The Smurfs' when I got laid off for a brief period of time from Disney. I didn't get the job. That was my first introduction to Smurfs. "
Introduction
Work
Time
" I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun. "
Audience
Mind
Movies
" I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs. "
Accused
Ruining
Want
" If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.' "
King
You
Similar
" 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.' "
Chocolate
Remember
Look
" I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all. "
Frank
Movies
Made
" I'm a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: 'Goonies,' 'E.T.,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Star Wars.' "
Great
Star
Adventure
" I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features. "
Business
Entertainment
Features
" In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie. "
Decisions
Job
Team
" It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage. "
Will
Stage
Actor
" I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it. "
I Think
Say
Film
" I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius. "
I Think
Think
Romeo
" I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people. "
Us
Think
People
" I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' very much, too. I grew up with that... I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting. "
Matter
Story
Think
" 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. "
Love
Done
Story
" I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive. "
Animation
Things
Right
" 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 but also make them very active in getting out of their situation. Make them really the central characters. "
Situation
World
Challenges
" 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. "
Feeling
Money
Enjoy
" I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television. "
Been
Child
Television
" My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's motivating. "
Left
Camera
Act
" On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey. "
Before
Locked
Even
" Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks. "
Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Shrek
" Smurfs must only eat Smurfberries. They can eat Smurfberry pie, they can have a Smurfberry sandwich, they can do whatever they want. But you can't have a Subway sandwich. It's got to be Smurfberries. "
Subway
Pie
Sandwich
" 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 archetypal story. "
Destiny
Work
Going
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