"I see parents who bring their kids down because their parents did that to them, instead of reinforcing their gifts, and instilling a sense of what they came to this earth to do."

“The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.”

Source : "'Gnomeo and Juliet' director Kelly Asbury" by Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. February 6, 2011.

“Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.”

“If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better”

“Vampires are people too!”

“Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.”

“I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience.”

“As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.”