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Tim Burton

(1958) Film Director

164 quotes in 797 categories

Step into the mind of a filmmaker who turns shadows into wonder. These 164 lines capture his love for the macabre, the whimsical, and the oddly beautiful, offering a glimpse into the creative engine that drives his iconic worlds.

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Tim Burton is a film director, best known for Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas".

Quick Facts About Tim Burton

Born: August 25, 1958
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas"

About Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for pioneering goth subculture in Hollywood, with his films employing a distinctive style that blends gothic horror and dark fantasy aesthetics with whimsical and surreal elements. He has received numerous accolades, including one Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three BAFTA Awards. He was honored with the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2007 and France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2010.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Tim Burton

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

Computer

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Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Expensive

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I always liked strange characters.

Always

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Every day is Halloween, isnt it? For some of us…

Every day

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One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

Another

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

Craziness

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Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

Adults

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Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Artist

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“Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

Movie-quote

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And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.

Grey

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One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Music

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Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

Can do

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If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

Cinema

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

Always

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“Stick Boy liked Match Girl, he liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot.”

Boy Liked

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I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

Abandoned

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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…

America

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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…

Find

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I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no,…

Fantasy

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Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not…

Art

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When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed…

Art

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I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

Felt

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I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not…

Bunch

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I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's…

Computers

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The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends…

Beautiful

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People always think I get really good reviews, but I don't. That's why I don't go on the Internet much - because…

Bizarre

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No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you…

Bubbles

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When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of…

Architecture

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I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click,…

Animation

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I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from…

Bigs

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I've often been accused of, 'Oh the movies looked good but there's no story,' but I disagree with that in theory, and…

Film

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Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her…

Curse

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There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a…

Bigs

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I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're…

Discovery

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Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car.…

Ability

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I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked…

Approach

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“Robot Boy Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life. They were a normal, happy husband and wife. One day they got…

Absurd

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

Face

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“For some of us, Halloween is everyday.”

Everyday

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We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Biology

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