Tim Burton Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

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

“There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.”