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I always liked strange characters.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
Actor
Animator
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Burbank
California
Timothy Burton
Timothy William Burton
Timothy Walter Burton
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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 sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.
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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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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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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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We all know interspecies romance is weird.
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I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.
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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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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 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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3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.
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There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
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I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
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When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
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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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I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches - especially when you're a child - it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.
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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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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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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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Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.
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