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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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Burbank
California
Timothy Burton
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Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
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3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.
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People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
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You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
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I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
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There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
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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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I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.
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I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.
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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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The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.
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I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
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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 wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
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Most people say about graveyards: Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy. But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.
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