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Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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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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I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
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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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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 really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
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I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
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Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
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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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