38 Quotes by Kelly Asbury

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.

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.'

I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.

I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all.

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.

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.

What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive.