American - Director | August 25, 1958 -
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.
Tim Burton
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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
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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 have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
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One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
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Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
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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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Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
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I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
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You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
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I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.
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In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
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