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" 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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" A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. "

Tim Burton

Child

Life

You

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream. "

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

Tim Burton

Expensive

" 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. "

" 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

Childhood

Start

" 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. "

" One person's crazyness is another person's reality. "

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

" There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. "

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

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

Tim Burton

Him

Off

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

" I always liked strange characters. "

" 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. "

Tim Burton

Decisions

Uncomfortable

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do. "

" To be honest, whatever troubles I've had, I've also gotten the opportunities to do things. "

" 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. "