Tim Burton Quotes

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 sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

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.

What I feel that "Alice in Wonderland" did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined.

They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

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

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

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

Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

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

When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.

No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

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.

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 edge, but still making it seem real.

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

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.

I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.

I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.

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