Quotes

Tim Burton

"One person's craziness is another person's reality"

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

"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."

"Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination."

"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 being the school president, and not having people treat you like you're part of society, or where you have to fulfill social relationships. You're at a distance from the rest of society; you feel like you're kind of looking out a window."

"Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child."

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"I've always liked strange characters."

"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."