Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Tim BurtonMayor: 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.
Tim BurtonI 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.
Tim BurtonWhen I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.
Tim Burton