U.S.-born Timothy W. Burton has worked in filmmaking, production, writing, and the arts in various capacities. He directed the superhero movies Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the science fiction movie Planet of the Apes (2001), the musical adventure movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. However, he is best known for his gothic fantasy and horror films, such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005) (2016). Here is some Tim Burton Quotes About Life and Human Beings.
Tim Burton Quotes About His Work
- “Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?” ~ Tim Burton
- “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” ~ Tim Burton
- “Don’t worry about how you ‘should’ draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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 weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “If you’ve 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
- “Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don’t know… a regular scientist just was no one.” ~ Tim Burton
- “It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.” ~ Tim Burton
- “Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn’t care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.” ~ Tim Burton
- “Good morning star shine the earth says hello.” ~ Tim Burton
- “Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.” ~ Tim Burton
- “I never really consider myself a great artist. I just always like to draw.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.” ~ Tim Burton
- “I always liked strange characters.” ~ Tim Burton
- “Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.” ~ Tim Burton
- “I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.” ~ Tim Burton
- “First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.” ~ Tim Burton
Tim Burton Quotes About Love
- “I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don’t.” ~ Tim Burton
- “Drawing is an exercise for a restless imagination.” ~ Tim Burton
- “Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “Most people say about graveyards: “Oh, it’s just a bunch of dead people. It’s creepy.” But for me, there’s an energy to it that is not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “It’s great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.” ~ Tim Burton
- “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
- “I think the thing is that you’re very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of an outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn’t leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn’t ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that.” ~ Tim Burton
- “I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn’t do.” ~ Tim Burton
- “The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn’t really see.” ~ Tim Burton
- “It’s always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that’s got emotion.” ~ Tim Burton
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