Quotes from Tim Burton

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing...

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

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.

If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

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 eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

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', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.

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'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.

I always liked strange characters.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.

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

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

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 you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

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.

My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

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.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.