Quotes by 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. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and ...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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...”

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

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

“I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them,...”

“A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.”

“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.”

“I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.”

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”

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

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

“I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.”

“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.”

“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...”

“In movies you kind of work out your issues, but then you realize, those kind of traumatic issues stay with you forever so somehow they kind of keep reoccurring, no matter how hard I try to get them...”

“I never really got nightmares from movies. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?”

“People say, Monster movies—they’re all fantasy. Well, fantasy isn’t fantasy—it’s reality if it connects to you. It’s like a dream. You have a nightmare, and it’s got all this crazy imagery, but it’...”

“It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. It’s like weird, twisted poetry, the way kids perceive things. And quite beautiful sometimes. They kind of blow your min...”