1. “Everything in this room is edible. Even I’m edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.” – Tim Burton
2. “I wouldn’t know a good script if it bit me in the face.” – Tim Burton
3. “I am not a dark person and I don’t consider myself dark.” – Tim Burton
4. “I don’t have a dog, because I travel too much. I don’t want to just leave it abandoned.” – Tim Burton
5. “I don’t know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.” – Tim Burton
6. “First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.” – Tim Burton
7. “Can a heart break, once it’s stopped beating?” – Tim Burton
8. “I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn’t do.” – Tim Burton
9. “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
10. “We all know interspecies romance is weird.” – Tim Burton
11. “Good morning starshine the earth says hello…” – Tim Burton
12. “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” – Tim Burton
13. “That’s why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.” – Tim Burton
14. “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
15. “When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.” – Tim Burton
16. “But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.” – Tim Burton
17. “I’m going to put that on my gravestone. “He created such a category of unwanted pop culture – – Famous for directing unwanted cultural references”” – Tim Burton
18. “Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.” – Tim Burton
19. “I’m a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative-negative. I’m positive-negative.” – Tim Burton
20. “I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.” – Tim Burton
21. “My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.” – Tim Burton
22. “You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” – Tim Burton
23. “If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.” – Tim Burton
24. “They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.” – Tim Burton
25. “Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.” – Tim Burton
26. “Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.” – Tim Burton
27. “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
28. “The problem with film is you never know when you’re going to be able to make a film so you can’t have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it’s fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.” – Tim Burton
29. “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
30. “Don’t worry about how you ‘should’ draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.” – Tim Burton
31. “I’m a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative-negative. I’m positive-negative.” – Tim Burton
32. “There’s something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.” – Tim Burton
33. “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
34. “The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.” – Tim Burton
35. “Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?” – Tim Burton
36. “I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.” – Tim Burton
37. “If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy.” – Tim Burton
38. “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
39. “I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don’t.” – Tim Burton
40. “I’m not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they’re like – I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn’t very happy about that.” – Tim Burton
41. “One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.” – Tim Burton
42. “I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked.” – Tim Burton
43. “It’s great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.” – Tim Burton
44. “I don’t really dream, I space out during the day – that’s one of my problems wonder off when someone’s talking to me. 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
45. “I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn’t the greatest sports person.” – Tim Burton
46. “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
47. “Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.” – Tim Burton
48. “I’ve found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.” – Tim Burton
49. “It’s always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that’s got emotion.” – Tim Burton
50. “Technology is technology and then art form and people’s creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything – great! Technology for technology sake doesn’t mean much to me anyway.” – Tim Burton
51. “But then on meeting you, I felt I should be with you always.” – Tim Burton
52. “Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.” – Tim Burton
53. “People always think I get really good reviews, but I don’t. That’s why I don’t go on the Internet much – because you can go down a dark hole looking at stuff. Once, I clicked on my name and freaked out. It’s too bizarre, it’s too weird, it’s too unsettling.” – Tim Burton
54. “People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.” – Tim Burton
55. “It’s very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything’s fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.” – Tim Burton
56. “Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.” – Tim Burton
57. “Son, are you happy? I don’t mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?” – Tim Burton
58. “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
59. “It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.” – Tim Burton
60. “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
61. “The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn’t really see.” – Tim Burton
62. “I had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they’re just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was.” – Tim Burton
63. “I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.” – Tim Burton
64. “No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that’s great. That’s where you have that bubble to create something in.” – Tim Burton
65. “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
66. “For some of us, Halloween is everyday.” – Tim Burton
67. “Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that’s why we’re all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it’s actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.” – Tim Burton
68. “Did you ever to think, maybe your not too big? Maybe this town’s just to small? ” – Big Fish.” – Tim Burton
69. “Nice work, bone daddy.” – Tim Burton
70. “Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.” – Tim Burton
71. “For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.” – Tim Burton
72. “Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.” – Tim Burton
73. “Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.” – Tim Burton
74. “Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.” – Tim Burton
75. “I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism – the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.” – Tim Burton