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While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him.
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I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
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Whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it’s like-you just feel dumb. It’s just so stupid.
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You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
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I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.
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I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.
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I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in.
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I've been lucky enough to work with a make-up artist, Joel Harlow, who you can throw anything at. I said, "Joel, I need to go to the London eye with my children and I want to look like a roadie from Lynyrd Skynyrd."
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They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.
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How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
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I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
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Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.
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There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
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I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.
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People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
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I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all...
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When you had the fangs in, you wanted to be a little bit careful that you didn't actually pierce the jugular, kind of like my experience shaving Alan Rickman, which by the way neither of us want to do again, especially Alan.
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I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.
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It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.
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I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.
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Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.
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Out on the street, you never know what you're getting, and suddenly two days later you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel, quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid. You really don't want that.
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My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.
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Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.