Quotes from Tim Burton

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 had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they're just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was.

Get away from meeeee! Edgar -Frankiewinnie

Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept, then went to the cabinet where the snack food was kept.

But then on meeting you, I felt I should be with you always.

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

Disney and I were a bad mix. For a year I was probably more depressed than I have ever been in my life. I worked for a great animator, Glenn Kean. He was nice, he was good to me, he's a really strong animator and he helped me. But he also kind of tortured me because I got all the cute fox scenes to draw, and I couldn't draw all those four-legged Disney foxes. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't even fake the Disney style. Mine looked like road kills.

roses are red, violets are blue. a clown killed a boy, and ate him up too.

Nice work, bone daddy.

Vanità scriverà qui riposa il vecchio Jack.

Did you ever to think, maybe your not too big? Maybe this town's just to small? - Big Fish

Cabeza de melón Había un niño taciturno, de hombre y melón un injerto. Tenía el ánimo nocturno por desear tanto estar muerto. Pero hay que tener cuidado con lo que se desea. Pues él acabó en jalea tras un pisotón bien dado.

La follia è, in un senso quasi spaventoso, la massima libertà possibile perchè ti libera dagli obblighi nei confronti della società.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

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 that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.

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.

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

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

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 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 A movies.

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

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.