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

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American - Director Born: August 25, 1958

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

Good, Artist, Remember

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

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

Reality, Person, Another

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

Life, Dreams, Fighting

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

Words, People, Problem

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

Work, World, Problems

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

Work, Technology, Good

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

Happy, Personality, People

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, Age, Day

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

Evil, Kiss, Know

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, Childhood, Simplicity

I always liked strange characters. Tim Burton

Strange, Always, Characters

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

Child, Trying, Way

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

Life, Dreams, Dream

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it. Tim Burton

Life, Long, Why

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it. Tim Burton

Time, Feeling, Someone

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

Father, Movies, Saying

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

Work, Nature, Simplicity

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

History, You, New

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

Alone, World, Think

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

Work, Start, Think

Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery. Writers, artists, illustrators, a lot of them have incorporated that. Tim Burton

Music, Powerful, Mad

I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys. Tim Burton

Good, Black, King

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, Lonely, Unique

To be honest, whatever troubles I've had, I've also gotten the opportunities to do things. Tim Burton

Opportunities, Honest

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

Character, Christmas, Know

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

Myself, I Am, Dark

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