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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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Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
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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'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
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There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.
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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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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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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 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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Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be.
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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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Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.
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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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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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And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said I think I need a hair.
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