Tim Burton Quotes

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

Half the fun is plan to plan

It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.

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

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.

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.

I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

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

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.

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

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.

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

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

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

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

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

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

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

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

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

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

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.

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 kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

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

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.

I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

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

Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.

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

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

One person's crazyness is another person's reality

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 with 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.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

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

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.