Top 80 Tim Burton Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.”

— Tim Burton

53. “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.”

— Tim Burton

54. “I think of Ray Harryhausen’s work – I knew his name before I knew any actor or director’s names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that’s what made me interested in animation: His work.”

— Tim Burton

55. “I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.”

— Tim Burton

56. “When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.”

— Tim Burton

57. “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

58. “It’s always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that’s got emotion.”

— Tim Burton

59. “I had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they’re just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

62. “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.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

66. “But then on meeting you, I felt I should be with you always.”

— Tim Burton

67. “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

68. “I’m going to put that on my gravestone. “He created such a category of unwanted pop culture – – Famous for directing unwanted cultural references””

— Tim Burton

69. “I don’t look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.”

— Tim Burton

70. “I don’t have a dog, because I travel too much. I don’t want to just leave it abandoned.”

— Tim Burton

71. “Can a heart break, once it’s stopped beating?”

— Tim Burton

72. “I wouldn’t know a good script if it bit me in the face.”

— Tim Burton

73. “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.”

— Tim Burton

74. “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.”

— Tim Burton

75. “The problem with film is you never know when you’re going to be able to make a film so you can’t have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it’s fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.”

— Tim Burton

76. “I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.”

— Tim Burton

77. “I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked.”

— Tim Burton

78. “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.”

— Tim Burton

79. “Disney and I were a bad mix. For a year I was probably more depressed than I have ever been in my life. I worked for a great animator, Glenn Kean. He was nice, he was good to me, he’s a really strong animator and he helped me. But he also kind of tortured me because I got all the cute fox scenes to draw, and I couldn’t draw all those four-legged Disney foxes. I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even fake the Disney style. Mine looked like road kills.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

81. “Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

— Tim Burton

82. “I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company – there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.”

— Tim Burton

83. “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.”

— Tim Burton

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

— Tim Burton

85. “If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy.”

— Tim Burton

86. “My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.”

— Tim Burton

87. “Nice work, bone daddy.”

— Tim Burton

88. “Did you ever to think, maybe your not too big? Maybe this town’s just to small? ” – Big Fish.”

— Tim Burton