Kelly Asbury Quotes

I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

I want to be in a Tim Burton movie so bad.

When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.

When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before Christmas' stuff. I saw 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times.

I'm a huge 'Nightmare before Christmas' fan, but that was also Henry Selick. I'm a really big fan of 'Sleepy Hollow.' I love 'Big Fish,' too, which is a bit different. There's a really cool era of early-Burton stuff like 'Ed Wood' that I'm a big fan of.

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

'Beetlejuice' was a romp, man. 'Beetlejuice' was fun. I've never had so much fun in my life.

To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.

Honestly, if it wasn't for 'Beetlejuice,' where would I be? That movie was a big thing for me.

'In Bruges' featured two hit men on a chatty stroll in Belgium, and certain people's passion for it is fit for Valentine's Day. But it was Tupperware Tarantino to me.

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.