Tim Burton Quotes:
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
I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Tim Burton
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy.
Tim Burton
Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who’s very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
Tim Burton
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
Tim Burton
People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
Tim Burton
One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality.
Tim Burton
Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
Tim Burton
I don’t know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
Tim Burton
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.
Tim Burton
I always liked strange characters.
Tim Burton
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.
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
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
I wouldn’t know a good script if it bit me in the face.
Tim Burton
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Tim Burton
I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it’s more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it’s also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.
Tim Burton
People say I am stuck in childhood, but it’s not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.
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
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.
Tim Burton
I think of Ray Harryhausen’s work – I knew his name before I knew any actor or director’s names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that’s what made me interested in animation: His work.
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 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.
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