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Tim Burton


American
August 25, 1958
Director
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I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.


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It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.


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I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.


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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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My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
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There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
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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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When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
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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 I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me to get to 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
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Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery. Writers, artists, illustrators, a lot of them have incorporated that.
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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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I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?
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When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.
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Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
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It was a weird reaction to 'Batman Returns,' because half the people thought it was lighter than the first one, and half the people thought it was darker. I think the studio just thought it was too weird - they wanted to go with something more child- or family-friendly. In other words, they didn't want me to do another one.
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It's people who you've seen that have given you a lot. In some ways, I felt they helped me psychologically because you see these people up on the screen going through torment and being on the outside, and somehow you relate to them, and it helps you get through life. It's a real honour and pleasure to then meet these people.
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