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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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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 was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all...
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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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I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.
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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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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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That pipe, just so happens to lead to the room where I make the most delicious flavored chocolate covered fudge." Then he will be made into strawberry flavoered chocolate covered fudge, they'll be selling him by the pound, all over the world!" No, I wouldn't allow it. The taste would be terrible. Can you imagine Augustus flavored chocolate covered gloop? Ew. No one would buy it.
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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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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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One thing that's been a great, uplifting experience through all this is, since the first "Pirates" movie, the people who've gone to see the films, the audience members. You meet people on the street - whether they're 5, 25, 65 or 85 - they've all had the same experience, and they've all enjoyed it. So that's what keeps me moving forward in this crazy process.
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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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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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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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I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.
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Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.
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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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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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Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.
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They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.
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I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.
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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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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.