I’ve seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
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. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
On ‘Shrek,’ Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we’d even designed the donkey. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
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. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
I think a film should be appropriate to what it’s trying to say or the characters in it. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
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. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
