Top 80 Tim Burton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t worry about how you ‘should’ draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.”

— Tim Burton

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2. “Good morning starshine the earth says hello...”

— Tim Burton

3. “Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.”

— Tim Burton

4. “I’m a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can’t pull out of it. But I don’t consider myself negative-negative. I’m positive-negative.”

— Tim Burton

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5. “If youve 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

6. “Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.”

— Tim Burton

7. “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

8. “Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?”

— Tim Burton

9. “One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”

— Tim Burton

10. “Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

13. “For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.”

— Tim Burton

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14. “It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.”

— Tim Burton

15. “Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”

— Tim Burton

16. “I am not a dark person and I don’t consider myself dark.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

19. “I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don’t.”

— Tim Burton

20. “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

21. “I don’t really dream, I space out during the day – that’s one of my problems wonder off when someone’s talking to me. I can’t remember any dreams in my life. There’s so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

23. “We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

25. “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

26. “I’m gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.”

— Tim Burton

27. “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

28. “I’ve always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don’t think like that because I get uncomfortable.”

— Tim Burton

29. “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 further in.”

— Tim Burton

30. “For some of us, Halloween is everyday.”

— Tim Burton

31. “Son, are you happy? I don’t mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?”

— Tim Burton

32. “It’s hard to find logic in things sometimes. That’s why I can’t analyze things too much, because it often doesn’t make much sense.”

— Tim Burton

33. “It’s very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything’s fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said.”

— Tim Burton

34. “I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn’t the greatest sports person.”

— Tim Burton

35. “My dearest friend, if you don’t mind, I’d like to join you by your side. Where we could gaze into the stars, and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain as anyone can see, we’re simply meant to be.”

— Tim Burton

36. “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.”

— Tim Burton

37. “I always liked strange characters.”

— Tim Burton

38. “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.”

— Tim Burton

39. “He can’t fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!”

— Tim Burton

40. “I’ve found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

42. “It’s great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.”

— Tim Burton

43. “Half the fun is plan to plan.”

— Tim Burton

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44. “My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

46. “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.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

48. “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.”

— Tim Burton

49. “I am not a big technology person. I don’t go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it’s private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.”

— Tim Burton

50. “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.”

— Tim Burton