Tim Burton Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

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

“One person's crazyness is another person's reality.”

“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.”

“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 started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.”

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

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

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