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Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.
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Dreamworks
Mickey
Mickey Mouse
Mouse
Shrek
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Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
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Tim
Tim Burton
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What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?
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Interpretation
What If
Shakespeare
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I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs.
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Accused
Ruining
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I think Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' is a work of genius.
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Juliet
Romeo
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If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'
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Lion King
Hamlet
Lion
Similar
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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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Germ
Signed
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I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all.
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Frank
Scorsese
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We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.
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Rebellious
Teenagers
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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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Appropriate
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I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.
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Animated
Entertaining
Entertainment Business
Features
Commercially
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On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.
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Donkey
Locked
Murphy
Designed
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Shrek
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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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Entertaining
Impart
Work Feel Want
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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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Combination
Features
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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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Adventure
Ark
Raiders
Lover
Wars
Star Wars
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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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Entertain
Entertain People
Shakespeare
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My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's motivating.
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Favorite Films
Motivating
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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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Garden
Good Luck
Luck
Witch
Diseases
Mythic
Protecting
Supposed
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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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Lovers
Archetypal
Favor
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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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Juliet
Adult
Case
Shakespeare
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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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Entertaining
Subject Matter
Target
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I actually applied at Hanna-Barbera to work on 'The Smurfs' when I got laid off for a brief period of time from Disney. I didn't get the job. That was my first introduction to Smurfs.
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Introduction
Applied
Brief
Disney
Laid
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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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Juliet
Rebellious
Grown
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Something Else
Wishes
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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.'
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Mary
Mockingbird
Bang
Factory
Mary Poppins
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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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Billboards
Plus
Posters
Recognise
Always Face People
Appear
Circuit
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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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Pie
Subway
Sandwich
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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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Different Levels
Groups
Levels
Strive
Wizard
Hits
Oz
Sees
Shrek
Striking
Wizard Of Oz
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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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Animated
Different Places
Originally
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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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Active
Obstacles
Central
Presented
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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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Battered
Bounce
Bruised
Cartoon
Classic
Cartoon Characters
Coyote
Tom
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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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Juliet
Score
West Side
West Side Story
Frankly
Musicals
Onscreen
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
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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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Animated
Features
Categorized
Trend
Types
Wink
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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.
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Grease
Juliet
Mountain
West Side
West Side Story
Good Me Look
Avatar
Good Look Me
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Shakespeare
Titanic
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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.
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Animated
Credit
Depends
Features
Instance
Contract
Deciding
Disney
Functions
Tends
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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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Movie
Animation
Cases
Consensus
Decision
Different
Exercise
Judgement
Made
Team
Together
Decisions
Job
Best Believe I Believe
Director
Collaborative
Coming
Disciplines
Medium
Terms
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