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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.

~Tim Burton

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 25th, 1958

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