Tim Burton Quotes

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

I always liked strange characters.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

Good morning starshine the earth says hello.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.