I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
In 1984, Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) saw Frankenweenie, a live-action short by a recently fired Disney animator. He was an instant fan.
Reubens was all, "Your loss, Disney," and gave the Disney reject the opportunity to direct his very first feature film. That Disney reject was Tim Burton.
After noticing that most people rode bikes around the studio lot, Paul Reubens asked for his own.
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He loved his new 1940s Schwinn so much that he abandoned the script he had been working on and wrote a new one about the bike.
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