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I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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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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I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
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A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
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I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.
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Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
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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 wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.
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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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