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Tim Burton Biography

Timothy Walter Burton (/ˈbɜːrtən/; born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, and eccentric horror and fantasy films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Dark Shadows (2012), and Frankenweenie (2012). He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), the superhero films Batman (1989) and its first sequel Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010).

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I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn't leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn't ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that.

Feeling, Loneliness, Stays, Successful, Think, Thinking

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

Live, People, Strange, Unusual

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

Boy, Boys, Eye, Pretty, Strange, Tree

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

Choice, Choices, Meeting, Meetings, Nappies, Nappy

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just. . . you know, they're like little artists themselves.

Artist, Children, Different, Kids, Know

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

Actually, Emotional, Interested, Leave, Thinking, Way

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.

Art, Art And Science, Closed, Instead, Open, People

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

Art, Artist, Creativity, Helps, Mean, Thing

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.

Drawing, Interesting, Kind, Reconnect, Way

Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.

Book, Horror, Stories, Story, Trying, Way

If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.

Dog, Dogs, Love, Powerful, Real, Sort

No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.

Create, Hollywood, Matter, Private, World

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

Building, Nice, People, Work

Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.

Films, Important, Nobody, People, Style, Understand

I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.

Dark, Depression, Gets, Pull, Scary, Times

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

Grown, Jack, Kings, Old Things, Same, Tired

Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.

Bear, Bears, Santa, Unaware, Year, Years

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

Isolated, Kids, Slightly, Thinking, World

I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.

Couple, Disney, Draw, Meaningful, Thing, Years

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

Hero, Nicest, People, Play, World

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