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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
I Think
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Film
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" What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation? "
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" I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive. "
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" 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 trend in animated features of all types to be a little bit cynical, if you will, to have a little bit of 'knowing' humor to them, kind of a wink to the audience. "
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" The way I choose voice talent is I don't let them tell me who the actor is. "
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" 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. "
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Situation
World
Challenges
" 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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Chocolate
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Look
" 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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Wrong
Nothing
More
" I'm a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: 'Goonies,' 'E.T.,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Star Wars.' "
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Great
Star
Adventure
" 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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Want
Make
I Feel
" 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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Good Luck
Good
Kitchen
" 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. "
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Destiny
Work
Going
" 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. "
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Decisions
Job
Team
" I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features. "
Kelly Asbury
Business
Entertainment
Features
" 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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People
Name
Film
" 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. "
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Subway
Pie
Sandwich
" I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius. "
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Think
Romeo
" On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey. "
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Before
Locked
Even
" I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs. "
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Accused
Ruining
Want
" We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't. "
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Grow
Sometimes
Teenagers
" 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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Us
Think
People
" The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry. "
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Back
Cartoon
" 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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Head
Film
Artist
" Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks. "
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Mouse
Mickey Mouse
Shrek
" 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. "
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Age
Balance
Done
" 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. "
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Introduction
Work
Time
" 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. "
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Love
Done
Story
" 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. "
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Audience
Mind
Movies
" 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. "
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