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I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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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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No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.
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It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.
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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 always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.
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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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People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
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I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
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That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.
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Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.
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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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The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.
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Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.
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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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One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.
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I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.
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I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.
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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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