Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of a child's perspective in rekindling a sense of wonder and creativity.
Tim Burton highlights how the experience of raising a child connects us to a time in life where everything is perceived with freshness and novelty. This connection is valuable not only for artistic expression but also for the broader human experience, reminding us of our innate curiosity and the importance of nurturing creativity and humanity in ourselves and others.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a parenting seminar to emphasize the importance of nurturing creativity in children.
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.
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