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Tim Burton (Film Director)

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

— Tim Burton reality

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

— Tim Burton art

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 work

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

— Tim Burton life

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 people

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 people

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

— Tim Burton life

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

— Tim Burton art

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

— Tim Burton movies

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 technology

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 love

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 life

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

— Tim Burton book

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

— Tim Burton world

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

— Tim Burton good

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 time

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 science

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 nature

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

— Tim Burton kill

I always liked strange characters.

— Tim Burton character

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 art

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

— Tim Burton art

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.

— Tim Burton people

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 was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?

— Tim Burton life

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

— Tim Burton history

One persons crazyness is another persons reality.

— Tim Burton reality

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

— Tim Burton reality

One persons craziness is another persons reality.

— Tim Burton reality

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