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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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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 would be considered A movies.
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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 me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
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If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.
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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 pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
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Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
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People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
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One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
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I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
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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 say I'm a dark personality.
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I always liked strange characters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
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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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A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
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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.
Written by Tim Burton
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.
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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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I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
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I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
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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.
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My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
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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.
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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.
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I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.
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