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.
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don't think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones.
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.
Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different.
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable._x000D_ The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.
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