Tim Burton Quotes

American - Director Born: August 25, 1958

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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, Me, Simplicity, Start

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

Life, Dreams, Fighting, Someone, Worth

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, Confused

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

Good, Weird, Remember, Artist, New, Way

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

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, People, Dress, Laugh

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, Remember, Dream

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, Saw

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

Me, Movies, Therapy, Expensive, Like

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, Out

I've often been accused of, 'Oh the movies looked good but there's no story,' but I disagree with that in theory, and '9' is a perfect example for me because the feel, the texture, and the look of that world, and those characters, is the story. That's a major component of why you feel the way you do when you're watching it. Tim Burton

Good, Me, Story, World, Feel, You

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

Life, People, Me, You, Meet, Pleasure

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing. Tim Burton

Time, Me, Remember, Kind, Early, Career

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

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, Saying, Feel, You, Down, Know

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, Unique, Lonely, You, Dark

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, Good, Technology, Computers, Think

I always liked strange characters. Tim Burton

Strange, Always, Characters, Liked

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

Alone, World, Feel, Think, Own, Kids

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, Trying, You

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself. Tim Burton

Car, Culture, Weather, Architecture, You

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

Words, People, Me, Child, Think, Thought

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

Work, Tired, People, Reality, Saying

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

Find, Sometimes, Logic, Too Much, Why

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

World, You, Making, Movie, Very

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

Decisions, Me, Think, Uncomfortable

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