38 Quotes by Kelly Asbury

I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs.

I wish I had been a child when the Smurfs came on television.

The way I choose voice talent is I don't let them tell me who the actor is.

My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's motivating.

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.

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.

Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.

It happens a lot that a name actor will be signed on to a project in its germ stage.

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.