Tim Burton Quotes

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, Weird, Remember, Artist, New, Way

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, Understanding, Say

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, Me, Start

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

Life, Dreams, Fighting, Worth, Why, Your

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, People, Happy, Dress, 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

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 always liked strange characters. Tim Burton

Strange, Always, Characters, Liked

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, World, Me, Look, Story, You

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 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, Remember, My Life, Dream

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

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

Me, Movies, Therapy, Expensive, Like

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, Think, Unique, Dark, You

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

World, You, Movie, Making, Very

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

Christmas, Character, Saying, Down, You

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

Alone, World, Think, Feel, Own, Lot

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

Good, Me, Face, Know, Script, Bit

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

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, Saying, Reality

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

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

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

Kiss, Evil, Know, You, Way, Open

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

History, New, You, See, Different

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, Yourself, Architecture

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

Opportunities, Things, Honest, Whatever

Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity. Tim Burton

Time, Child, Humanity, You, Important

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