Tim Burton Quotes

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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 sense.
• My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
• Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the…
• 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…
• 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…
• I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality',…
• I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who…
• I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All…
• I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on…
• 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,…
• In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar…
• It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.'…
• 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…
• 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…
• Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
• One person's craziness is another person's reality.
• People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
• 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…
• Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
• I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

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