I truly believe that all children are born with the ability to see the world differently than we, adults. Their vision is poetic, magic and unusual. As they grow, they lose that vision but few are blessed (or cursed) to keep it. They become artists, creators, visionaries
Take for example the little boy from California. He liked more than anything to watch old horror movies with his idol, Vincent Price, to paint, and to read his favorite writer Edgar Allan Poe's gruesome tales and macabre poems. The boy grew up, attended California Institute of the Arts. and after graduation, he found his first job as an animator for Disney. When he was 25, he got his childhood dream fulfilled by having made the six-minute long animated black/white Gothic tribute to Vincent Price, "Vincent". Guess what - his childhood hero narrated the film about a little boy named Vincent Maloy. Tim Burton who remembered very well a young boy Burton's dreams of a home with spiders and bats where he "could reflect on the horrors he had invented", wrote the script and directed the beautiful, scary, dark, funny, poetic, elegant, incredibly personal, deliciously imaginative, and irresistibly charming little stop motion marvel.