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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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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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I always liked strange characters.
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I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
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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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I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
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I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
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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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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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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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