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" Danny Elfman, the composer, tells me the only time he thinks I'm happy is when I'm on the scoring stage, and I see the pressure's on him and it's a little off me. "

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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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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Mad

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it. "

" 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. "

" I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys. "

" 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. "

" I keep thinking I'm going to miss it back in Los Angeles. But I don't. The only thing I miss is driving out in the desert in the Southwest. "

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

" 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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Childhood

Start

" I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit. "

" 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'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. "

" I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing. "

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

" 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. "

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Decisions

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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. "

" People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice. "

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Him

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" There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it. "

" Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams? "

" Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. "

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

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Expensive

" 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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People