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.
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 BurtonWhen you donโt have many friends and you donโt have a social life youโre kind of left looking at things, not doing things. Thereโs a weird freedom in not having people treat you like youโre part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.
Tim BurtonUnwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
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