We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don’t. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
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. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
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. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people. Kelly Asbury Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: ‘Goonies,’ ‘E.T.,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ ‘Star Wars.’ Kelly Asbury Read Quote
