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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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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.
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I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.
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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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I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn't leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn't ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that.
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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 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 never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
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Staring Girl I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care She'd stare at the ground, She'd stare at the sky. She'd stare at you for hours, and you'd never know why. But after winning the local staring contest, she finally gave her eyes a well-deserved rest.
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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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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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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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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
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I always liked strange characters.
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Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
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I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
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Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.
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Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
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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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