Quotes from Tim Burton

To be honest, whatever troubles I've had, I've also gotten the opportunities to do things.

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

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

Staring Girl I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care She'd stare at the ground, She'd stare at the sky. She'd stare at you for hours, and you'd never know why. But after winning the local staring contest, she finally gave her eyes a well-deserved rest.

My diagnosis, he said for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

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 it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

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

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

Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.

Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here?

Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.

Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.

Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

My dearest friend, if you don't mind, I'd like to join you by your side. Where we could gaze into the stars, and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain as anyone can see, we're simply meant to be.

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

If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain If you cut me with a knife It's still the same And I know her heart is beating And I know that I am dead Yet the pain here that I feel Try and tell me it's not real And it seems I still have a tear to shed