Tim Burton quotes

Tim Burton is an American director, producer, artist, and writer, widely recognized for his darkly imaginative films. His unique visual style blends gothic elements with quirky humor and fantastical themes. He is known for movies such as “Edward Scissorhands,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and “Beetlejuice.” Here are 69 of his quotes:

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

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

I always liked strange characters.

Tim Burton

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Tim Burton

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.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

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.

Tim Burton

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.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

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.

Tim Burton

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.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

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

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

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Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.

Tim Burton

Voodoo girl But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

Tim Burton

The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed she had a mouth, so we ended up talking. We talked about flowers, and her poetry classes, and the problems she'd have if she ever wore glasses. It's great to know a girl who has so many eyes, but you really get wet when she breaks down and cries.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

Half the fun is plan to plan.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

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.

Tim Burton