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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
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I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.
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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
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I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.
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I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
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I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
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Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
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I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
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No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.
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Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally he burned up quick.
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My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.
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When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.
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I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
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Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.
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I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.
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Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
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When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.
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