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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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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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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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A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.
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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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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
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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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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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The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
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I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
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