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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tim Burton

Work

Think

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tim Burton

Science

Art

" 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. "

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

Tim Burton

Him

Off

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

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

" It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tim Burton

Powerful

Mad

" When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. "

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

" 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 always liked strange characters. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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