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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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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
Actor
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Burbank
California
Timothy Burton
Timothy William Burton
Timothy Walter Burton
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I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.
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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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