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Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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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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I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
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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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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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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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But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.
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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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Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
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Most people say about graveyards: Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy. But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.
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I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
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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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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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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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I always liked strange characters.
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