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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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" 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 found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people. "

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" I always liked strange characters. "

" I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing. "

" When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world. "

" If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened. "

" I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark. "

" 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. "

" Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs!' 'How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?' You know? So, it's those kind of things that really wear you down. "

" I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face. "

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

" I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work. "

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" I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole. "

" 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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" I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. "

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

" Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. "

" 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. "