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Portrait of Tim Burton

Tim Burton

(1958) Film Director

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Tim Burton is a film director, best known for Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas".

Quick Facts About Tim Burton

Born: August 25, 1958
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas"

About Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for pioneering goth subculture in Hollywood, with his films employing a distinctive style that blends gothic horror and dark fantasy aesthetics with whimsical and surreal elements. He has received numerous accolades, including one Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three BAFTA Awards. He was honored with the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007 and France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2010.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Tim Burton · Page 3

“Get away from meeeee!" Edgar -Frankiewinnie”

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I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of…

Cinema

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I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for…

Confused

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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…

Art

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Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor:…

Faces

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Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

Draws

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When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of…

Architecture

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Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could…

Absurd

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If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or…

Feelings

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They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of…

Baseball

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

Dark

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

Artistry

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Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always…

Brilliant

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I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

Choices

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

Cinema

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For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and…

Dream

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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…

Clown

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Half the fun is plan to plan

Fun

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Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end…

Book

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Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

Form

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I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

Feels

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I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what…

Movie

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Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

Can do

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

Kings

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If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the…

Appearing

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