Sight and Sound December 1994 Page 27-29

 After reading the section of animated dreams on The Nightmare Before Christmas which included an interview with Henry Selick and an introduction it was very fascinating what they'd said for example that "independent animation directors may be recognized as auteurs, but within the Hollywood mainstream directors are still seen as only a few steps up the food chain from inkers and painters" suggesting that independent directors are more recognized compared to the big hollywood directors where as for the film "Disney is marking it's latest feature as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" which proves Burton's impact on Disney because they described that the film "strongly evocative, in familiar dark night shades of Burton's visual signiture the film marks a departure for Disney" which proves that Tim Burton has had an huge affect on Disney's films as Burton offers a new range of ideas from the typical Disney classics although "the studio hasn't made anything as creepily sinister as this since Pinocchio visited pleasure island and turned into a donkey".

But during an interview with Selick he discussed that he was given the job of briefing and to keep Burton's style and to stick to the 'suits' of co-fiances of Disney, in addition to this "after a slow start the film gained $60 million in the US" but Henry Selick said that it was "very gratifying not to have typical Disney structure instead there was Tim Burton - an 800 pound gorilla with creative control" and because Tim is a lone film maker with an unusual films every single one has been successful not just because of his imagination but because Selick believes "animation leads itself to illustrating dreams of anything.