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Tim Burton Quotes

American - Director | August 25, 1958 -

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

Me Book Never Anything Comic Book

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

Sports Person Greatest Some Did Bit

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Family Parents Think Pressure Found

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

Life Childhood I Am People Remember

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.

Life People Me You Meet Outside

Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.

Time Child Humanity You New Just

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.

Music Powerful Mad Cat Things Songs

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

Know Movies Never Saw Would Movie

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

Choose Choice Meeting Going Changing

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.

You Edge Go Actor Brilliant Real

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

Technology Age Day I Am Drawing Go

I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.

Work Me Think Name Impact Early

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