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I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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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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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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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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It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.
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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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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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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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If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! But I've always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it's because people think I look a little crazy.
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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 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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My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.
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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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When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
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I always liked strange characters.
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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 like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.
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I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.
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Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.
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A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
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