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" We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't. "
Kelly Asbury
Grow
Sometimes
Teenagers
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" What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation? "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Film
Artist
" 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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" 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've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive. "
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Right
" On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey. "
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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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Us
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People
" 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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" 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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" It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius. "
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" If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.' "
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" Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks. "
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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. "
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" I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features. "
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" I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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