If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.
Tim BurtonMy parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
Tim BurtonMinister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.
Tim BurtonI remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.
Tim Burton