Tim Burton Quotes

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

~ Tim Burton

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?

~ Tim Burton

My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

~ Tim Burton

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,What have you done to my boy?He's not flesh and blood,he's aluminum alloy!The doctor said gently,What I'm going to saywill sound pretty wild.But you're not the father of this strange looking child.You see, there still is some questionabout the child's gender,but we think that its fatheris a microwave blender.

~ Tim Burton

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

~ Tim Burton

Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth,and she's all sewn apartand she has many colored pinssticking out of her heart.She has many different zombieswho are deeply in her trance.She even has a zombiewho was originally from France.But she knows she has a curse on her,a curse she cannot win.For if someone getstoo close to her,the pins stick farther in.

~ Tim Burton

The Girl With Many EyesOne day in the parkI had quite a surprise.I met a girlwho had many eyes.She was really quite pretty(and also quite shocking!)and I noticed she had a mouth,so we ended up talking.We talked about flowers,and her poetry classes,and the problems she'd haveif she ever wore glasses.It's great to know a girlwho has so many eyes,but you really get wetwhen she breaks down and cries.

~ Tim Burton

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

~ Tim Burton

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.

~ Tim Burton

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

~ Tim Burton

If you've 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 with you.

~ Tim Burton

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

~ Tim Burton

Most people say about graveyards: Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy. But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

~ Tim Burton

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

~ Tim Burton

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

~ Tim Burton

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

~ Tim Burton

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

~ Tim Burton

Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs!' 'How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?' You know? So, it's those kind of things that really wear you down.

~ Tim Burton

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

~ Tim Burton

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.

~ Tim Burton

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.

~ Tim Burton

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.

~ Tim Burton

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

~ Tim Burton

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

~ Tim Burton

I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.

~ Tim Burton

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

~ Tim Burton

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.

~ Tim Burton

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

~ Tim Burton

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.

~ Tim Burton

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

~ Tim Burton