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Mayor: How Horrible Our Christmas Will Be! Jack Skellington: *no.* [the Mayor Switches To His Upset Face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* Our Christmas Will Be.

I Try Not To Go Back In Retrospect And Say Oh, I Shouldn't Have Done This Or Shouldn't Have Done That. You Make Your Decisions And You Live By Them.

I Think The Thing Is That You're Very Affected By Your Early Life, And I Think That If You Ever Had That Feeling Of Outsider, Or Loneliness Or Whatever, It Just Doesn't Leave You. You Can Be Happy And Successful, Whatever, But I Think That Thing Stays Inside Of You. It Doesn't Ever Really Leave You. You Kind Of Always Will Have That.

I Have A Problem When People Say Something's Real Or Not Real, Or Normal Or Abnormal. The Meaning Of Those Words For Me Is Very Personal And Subjective. I've Always Been Confused And Never Had A Clearcut Understanding Of The Meaning Of Those Kinds Of Words.

Nobody Had His [ed Wood's] Style. That's Something I Try To Do In My Films. You Have Your Own Kind Of Cryptic Messages In There - Cryptic Things That Most People Wouldn't Understand But Are Important To You. Things That Kind Of Keep You Going Through The Process.