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

Good, Remember, Weird, Artist, Always

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

Personality, Happy, Dress, People, Laugh

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, Worth, Someone

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, People, World, Problems, Play

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, Computers, Think

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world. Tim Burton

World, You, Making, Movie, Very

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. Tim Burton

Me, Movies, Therapy, Like, Expensive

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, Think, Lonely, Unique, Dark, You

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, Experience, Child, You, Trying

It was a weird reaction to 'Batman Returns,' because half the people thought it was lighter than the first one, and half the people thought it was darker. I think the studio just thought it was too weird - they wanted to go with something more child- or family-friendly. In other words, they didn't want me to do another one. Tim Burton

Child, Words, People, Think, Thought, Me

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, See, New, Different

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, King, Black, Bad, Never, Good Guys

I always liked strange characters. Tim Burton

Strange, Always, Characters, Liked

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith. Tim Burton

Book, Me, Never, Anything, Comic Book

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, Think, Start, Early, You, Trouble

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

Logic, Too Much, Find, Sometimes, Why

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

Good, Face, Me, Know, Script, Bit

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

Myself, I Am, Dark, Person, Consider, Am

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

Child, Trying, Way, Always, Things, Saw

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, I Am, Drawing, Go

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think. Tim Burton

Family, Parents, Think, Pressure, Ideal

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, Me, Problem, Meaning, Say

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, My Life, Dream, Remember

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, Feel, See, Someone, I See

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, Simplicity, Childhood, Start, Me

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