Tim Burton Quotes

American - Director Born: August 25, 1958

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

Making, Someone, Else

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

Very, Been, Had

I always liked strange characters. Tim Burton

Always, Characters, Liked

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

Reason, Tries, Everybody

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

Certain Way, Staying, About

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

Very, Making, World

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

Tortured, Feel, I See

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

My Life, Like, Dreams

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

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

Person, Another, Reality

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

Always, Remember, New

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. Tim Burton

Always, Think, Been

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

Always, Dress, Been

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

Movies, Form, Like

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

I Am, Person, Myself

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

Play, Villains, Screen

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

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

Studio, Other, I Think

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

Movies, Nature, Work

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

Lot, Think, Slightly

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

Art, Like, About

It's people who you've seen that have given you a lot. In some ways, I felt they helped me psychologically because you see these people up on the screen going through torment and being on the outside, and somehow you relate to them, and it helps you get through life. It's a real honour and pleasure to then meet these people. Tim Burton

Through, Some, Torment

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

Lot, See, Remain

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

Always, Reconnect, Anybody

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

Gotten, Honest, Things

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

Bad, Frankenstein, Good Guys

I keep thinking I'm going to miss it back in Los Angeles. But I don't. The only thing I miss is driving out in the desert in the Southwest. Tim Burton

Southwest, Angeles, Going

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