I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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 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

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

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