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"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."
[on the stress of delivering a summer movie in an era when release dates are often set by studios before a script is finished]" It's like you're a runner and they beat the shit out of you and break your legs right before you're supposed to race, and then they say, 'Now go win the race.'
In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. The fact that Disney closed down its cel animation division is frightening to me. Someday soon, somebody will come along and do a drawn-animated film, and it'll be beautiful and connect with people, and they'll all go, 'Oh, we've got to do that!' It's ridiculous.
[Becoming a movie director] "There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam--we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn't, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, 'Yeah, I wouldn't mind being a filmmaker.' "
It is unfortunate that Disney closed down its drawn-animation unit. I find it quite upsetting, because they made a few drawn movies that weren't successful and they went, `Well, that is dead, so we have to go to computers.' They forget that the reason that they have been successful is because Pixar [whose films Disney distributes] makes good movies. Success is the real reason people try to copy things in Hollywood. Someday someone will do a beautiful cell- animation film that connects with people and then someone will say, `We have to go and do that again.' The number-one priority should be that the story and the medium are compatible.

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Quote:Depp said he hopes he’ll get to work with Burton in the future. “It's all up to him whether he gives me the job. Working with Tim, I've said it before, but it's the only analogy that works. Working with Tim is really like going home for me. It's this place that's very comfortable even with the knowledge that there's a lot of risks that have to be taken and you have to really be prepared to explore. But there is great comfort there and there is great safety there.”
Who said/wrote it:Johnny Depp on Working with Tim Burton

Quote:“It's always been, with Tim and I, aside from 'Scissorhands' which was kind of a general meeting, but after that you get these sort of mysterious phone calls out of nowhere after sometimes months, sometimes years. And he'll say, 'What are you doing?' 'Nothing. I'm just hanging around.' 'Can you meet me for dinner next week?' 'Sure. Where?' 'New York.' 'Okay.' 'Okay. I'll see you then.' 'Okay.' I mean, there's no subject. There's no project. There's nothing. It's just like, 'Okay. I'm going to go see Tim in a week.' It's always been like that.”
Who said/wrote it:Johnny Depp on Tim Burton – How the Relationship Functions

Quote:“No. For me, I see myself as just a very, very lucky boy who's been drafted to come along for the ride. I would say that the fact that he's chosen me these last times to interpret these characters is either great luck or a huge mistake on his part. No. I think that it's just that we're good friends and we understand each other. We have a similar sense of humor. A similar background. Similar fascinations. So I just feel really lucky. I felt lucky after 'Scissorhands.'”
Who said/wrote it:Depp-Does He Consider Himself Tim Burton’s Muse?

Quote:“Oh, I think that they definitely are to some degree. Reflections of me, too, but certainly the seed starts with Tim. I think that Edward Scissorhands was a character that Tim started drawing when he was a teenager and then that developed over the years, and clearly it's him. I think that there is a lot of Tim in this character. Quite a bit.”
Who said/wrote it:Johnny Depp-On Playing Characters for Tim Burton that are Reflections of Himself

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