“Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story ar...” — Kelly Asbury Quote

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.

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.'

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

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

On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.

'Tallica Parking Lot' is, basically, roughly about a four-minute animated short which is centered around the parking lot of Metallica, and that can be anywhere in the world.

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

Unlike Facebook or Instagram, Twitter's core experience isn't about photos. It's a world of text, with occasional embedded photos, animated gifs, and short video clips.