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I always liked strange characters.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
Actor
Animator
Designer
Film Director
Film Producer
Poet
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Burbank
California
Timothy Burton
Timothy William Burton
Timothy Walter Burton
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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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It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.
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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 never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.
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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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Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.
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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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Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.
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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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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 don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.
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I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
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We all know interspecies romance is weird.
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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 don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
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Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.
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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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I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
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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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Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.
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