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The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.
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 of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
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.
He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.
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.
I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.
But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.
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.
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
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.
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.'
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.
There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.
Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.
I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".
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.
I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.
I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.
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.
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 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.
I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.
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.
Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be.
Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.
I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.
Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.
I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.
Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.
One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.
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.