He's definitely one of a kind. Loved loved loved Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. I wish I could get a copy of that original sketch he did of Edward in highschool. Can't wait for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I was so disappointed with the original.
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i watched edward scissorhands yesterday. winona ryder is so pretty there and johnny depp so young. i loved the contrast between his castle and the town, suburbia. charlie and the chocolate factory looks very good.
But this one will be allot different i think, with some slight similarities.
but Pin Cushion Queen is a close second 
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He's one of my favourite directors along with David Wright.
I absolutely love Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands.
I absolutely love Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands.
oh, I adore him! and I agree, especially when paired with danny elfman. wow. there's just something about his style...it's dark and meloncholic, but there's also this sweet, gentle, innocent side that comes through.
edward scissorhands is by far my favourite burton film...
I this strong emotional attachment he has to some of the films and stories he tells really comes through, and that is what makes them what they are. 
edward scissorhands is by far my favourite burton film...
I this strong emotional attachment he has to some of the films and stories he tells really comes through, and that is what makes them what they are. 
here's some quotes from his films (from Imdb.com).and yes,I'm bored 
Beetlejuice:
"Go ahead... make my millenium. "
Adam: What are your qualifications?
Betelgeuse: Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT... NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY... NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?
Lydia: Maybe YOU can relax in a haunted house, but I can't.
Lydia: I myself am... strange and unusual.
[In the waiting room of the afterlife]
Barbara: Adam, is this what happens when you die?
Receptionist: That is what happens when you die, that is what happens when he dies
[pointing to charred man, woman cut in half, etc]
Receptionist: and that is what happens when they die. It's all very personal. And I'll tell you something; if I knew then what I know now
Betelgeuse: I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Edward Scissorhands:
Bill: Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies
Jim: Forget about holding her hand, man. Think about the damage he could do to other places.
Peg Boggs: Blending is the secret!
[shows her slit wrists]
Receptionist: I wouldn't have had my little accident.
The Nightmare Before Christmas:
Jack Skellington: [singing] There's children throwing snowballs / instead of throwing heads / they're busy building toys / and absolutely no one's dead!
Jack Skellington: [singing] Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!
Santa: Release me fast or you will have to answer for this heinous act.
Jack Skellington: And they call him Sandy Claws
Dr. Finkelstein: You've poisoned me for the last time, you wretched girl!
Jack Skellington: [singing] And since I am dead, I can take off my head, to recite Shakespearean quotations.
Lock, Shock, Barrel: [singing] Kidnap the Santa Claus / beat him with a stick / lock him up for ninety years / see what makes him tick.
Jack Skellington: We take an oversized sock and hang it right here on the wall.
Mr. Hyde: Oh, yes. Does it still have a foot?
Smaller Mr. Hyde: Let me see, let me look.
Smallest Mr. Hyde: Is it rotted and covered with ****?
Beetlejuice:
"Go ahead... make my millenium. "
Adam: What are your qualifications?
Betelgeuse: Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT... NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY... NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? You think I'm qualified?
Lydia: Maybe YOU can relax in a haunted house, but I can't.
Lydia: I myself am... strange and unusual.
[In the waiting room of the afterlife]
Barbara: Adam, is this what happens when you die?
Receptionist: That is what happens when you die, that is what happens when he dies
[pointing to charred man, woman cut in half, etc]
Receptionist: and that is what happens when they die. It's all very personal. And I'll tell you something; if I knew then what I know now
Betelgeuse: I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Edward Scissorhands:
Bill: Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies
Jim: Forget about holding her hand, man. Think about the damage he could do to other places.
Peg Boggs: Blending is the secret!
[shows her slit wrists]
Receptionist: I wouldn't have had my little accident.
The Nightmare Before Christmas:
Jack Skellington: [singing] There's children throwing snowballs / instead of throwing heads / they're busy building toys / and absolutely no one's dead!
Jack Skellington: [singing] Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it!
Santa: Release me fast or you will have to answer for this heinous act.
Jack Skellington: And they call him Sandy Claws
Dr. Finkelstein: You've poisoned me for the last time, you wretched girl!
Jack Skellington: [singing] And since I am dead, I can take off my head, to recite Shakespearean quotations.
Lock, Shock, Barrel: [singing] Kidnap the Santa Claus / beat him with a stick / lock him up for ninety years / see what makes him tick.
Jack Skellington: We take an oversized sock and hang it right here on the wall.
Mr. Hyde: Oh, yes. Does it still have a foot?
Smaller Mr. Hyde: Let me see, let me look.
Smallest Mr. Hyde: Is it rotted and covered with ****?
Ed Wood:
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Listen, I was wondering if you'd like to go out sometime, grab some dinner, maybe?
Vampira: You mean a date? I thought you were a ***.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: No, no, I'm just a transvestite.
Criswell: Eddie, we're in show biz. It's all about razzle-dazzle. Appearances. If you look good, and you talk well, people will swallow anything.
Bela Lugosi: I refuse to drive in this country. Too many madmen.
Bela Lugosi: This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: And cut! Print. We're moving on. That was perfect.
Ed Reynolds: Perfect? Mr. Wood, do you know anything about the art of film production?
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Well, I like to think so.
Ed Reynolds: That cardboard headstone tipped over. This graveyard is obviously phony.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
Ed Reynolds: The big picture?
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Yes.
Ed Reynolds: Then how 'bout when the policemen arrived in daylight, but now it's suddenly night?
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
Editor on Studio Lot: You forgot the octopus.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: No, no, I'm saving that for my big underwater climax.
Bela Lugosi: Pull the string! Pull the string!
[on the reason for the success of 'Dracula(1931)']
Bela Lugosi: They were mythic. They had a poetry to them.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Yes.
Bela Lugosi: And you know what else? The women... the women preferred the traditional monsters.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: The women? Huh?
Bela Lugosi: The pure horror, it both repels, and attracts them, because in their collective unconsiousness, they have the agony of childbirth. The blood. The blood is horror.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: You know, I never thought of that.
Bela Lugosi: Take my word for it. If you want to make out with a young lady, take her to see "Dracula".
Bunny Breckinridge: I realized that I have to take action! Goodbye, penis!
Dolores Fuller: Could you please keep it down?
Vampira: You're watching our Halloween movie, "White Zombie", starring Bela Lugosi, John Harron, Madge Bellamy, and a bunch of other people I've never heard of.
Mars Attacks!:
President Dale: Why can't we work out our differences? Why can't we work things out? Little people, why can't we all just get along?
Richie Norris: I want to thank my Grandma for always being so good to me, and, and for helping save the world and everything.
Grandma Florence Norris: They blew up Congress! Ha ha ha ha!
Martian Translator Device: All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Listen, I was wondering if you'd like to go out sometime, grab some dinner, maybe?
Vampira: You mean a date? I thought you were a ***.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: No, no, I'm just a transvestite.
Criswell: Eddie, we're in show biz. It's all about razzle-dazzle. Appearances. If you look good, and you talk well, people will swallow anything.
Bela Lugosi: I refuse to drive in this country. Too many madmen.
Bela Lugosi: This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: And cut! Print. We're moving on. That was perfect.
Ed Reynolds: Perfect? Mr. Wood, do you know anything about the art of film production?
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Well, I like to think so.
Ed Reynolds: That cardboard headstone tipped over. This graveyard is obviously phony.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
Ed Reynolds: The big picture?
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Yes.
Ed Reynolds: Then how 'bout when the policemen arrived in daylight, but now it's suddenly night?
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
Editor on Studio Lot: You forgot the octopus.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: No, no, I'm saving that for my big underwater climax.
Bela Lugosi: Pull the string! Pull the string!
[on the reason for the success of 'Dracula(1931)']
Bela Lugosi: They were mythic. They had a poetry to them.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: Yes.
Bela Lugosi: And you know what else? The women... the women preferred the traditional monsters.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: The women? Huh?
Bela Lugosi: The pure horror, it both repels, and attracts them, because in their collective unconsiousness, they have the agony of childbirth. The blood. The blood is horror.
Edward D. Wood, Jr.: You know, I never thought of that.
Bela Lugosi: Take my word for it. If you want to make out with a young lady, take her to see "Dracula".
Bunny Breckinridge: I realized that I have to take action! Goodbye, penis!
Dolores Fuller: Could you please keep it down?
Vampira: You're watching our Halloween movie, "White Zombie", starring Bela Lugosi, John Harron, Madge Bellamy, and a bunch of other people I've never heard of.
Mars Attacks!:
President Dale: Why can't we work out our differences? Why can't we work things out? Little people, why can't we all just get along?
Richie Norris: I want to thank my Grandma for always being so good to me, and, and for helping save the world and everything.
Grandma Florence Norris: They blew up Congress! Ha ha ha ha!
Martian Translator Device: All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
Sleepy Hollow:Dr. Thomas Lancaster: This is most irregular, Constable.
Ichabod Crane: I should hope so, Doctor, but in this case necessary. I shall need to operate.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Operate? She's dead.
Lady Van Tassel: The Horseman comes. And tonight he comes for you.
Baltus Van Tassel: [to Ichabod] Young sir, you are most welcome, even if you are selling something.
Lady Van Tassel: Watch your heads.
Big Fish:
Ed Bloom (Age 10): I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you're gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive.
Young Ed Bloom: It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties.
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion, you never know who you're gonna offend.
talking about the witch]
Zacky Price (Age 10): She'll make soap out of you. That's what they do, make soap out of people.
[a poem written on a note pad]
Norther Winslow: The grass is so green. The sky is so blue. Spectre is really great.
Senior Ed Bloom: The Milk Man dropped dead on our front porch. Turns out my mama was banging the Milk Man.
Senior Ed Bloom: They say, when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.
Will Bloom: You become what you always were - a very big fish.
Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French.
Josephine: Really?
Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.
Will Bloom: Why not religion, dad?
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend.
Will Bloom: Josephine actually went to the Congo last year.
Senior Ed Bloom: Oh, so you know.
Senior Ed Bloom: I saw my death in that eye, and this isn't how it happens.
Will Bloom: So how does it happen?
Senior Ed Bloom: Surprise ending. Wouldn't want to ruin it for you.
Ichabod Crane: I should hope so, Doctor, but in this case necessary. I shall need to operate.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Operate? She's dead.
Lady Van Tassel: The Horseman comes. And tonight he comes for you.
Baltus Van Tassel: [to Ichabod] Young sir, you are most welcome, even if you are selling something.
Lady Van Tassel: Watch your heads.
Big Fish:
Ed Bloom (Age 10): I was thinking about death and all. About seeing how you're gonna die. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive.
Young Ed Bloom: It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in the social niceties.
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion, you never know who you're gonna offend.
talking about the witch]
Zacky Price (Age 10): She'll make soap out of you. That's what they do, make soap out of people.
[a poem written on a note pad]
Norther Winslow: The grass is so green. The sky is so blue. Spectre is really great.
Senior Ed Bloom: The Milk Man dropped dead on our front porch. Turns out my mama was banging the Milk Man.
Senior Ed Bloom: They say, when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.
Will Bloom: You become what you always were - a very big fish.
Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French.
Josephine: Really?
Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you were to walk through the jungle, you'd hear them speaking the most elaborate French. Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion.
Will Bloom: Why not religion, dad?
Senior Ed Bloom: It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend.
Will Bloom: Josephine actually went to the Congo last year.
Senior Ed Bloom: Oh, so you know.
Senior Ed Bloom: I saw my death in that eye, and this isn't how it happens.
Will Bloom: So how does it happen?
Senior Ed Bloom: Surprise ending. Wouldn't want to ruin it for you.
wonderful topic, wouldn't it be nice to add some visuals?
here is a screencap for the corpse bride from www.timburtoncollective.com
here is a screencap for the corpse bride from www.timburtoncollective.com
