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When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.
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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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I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
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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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It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.
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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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Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.
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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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Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.
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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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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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People always think I get really good reviews, but I don't. That's why I don't go on the Internet much - because you can go down a dark hole looking at stuff. Once, I clicked on my name and freaked out. It's too bizarre, it's too weird, it's too unsettling.
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I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.
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My diagnosis, he said for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
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I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
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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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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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People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
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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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I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
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