Quotes by Tim Burton

About Tim Burton:

Timothy Walter is an American film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, macabre, and quirky horror and fantasy films such as the horror comedy fantasy Beetlejuice (1988), the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990), the musical fantasy-thriller The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), the comedy-drama biopic Ed Wood (1994), the fantasy adventure Sleepy Hollow (1999), the animated fantasy Corpse Bride (2005), the musical horror film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), the horror comedy Dark Shadows (2012) and the animated horror comedy Frankenweenie (2012). He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), the superhero films Batman (1989) and its first sequel Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010), which garnered a worldwide gross of over $1 billion worldwide, being Burton's most successful film to date.
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I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

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Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

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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 em...

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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.

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

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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

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.

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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.

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

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

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Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, ther...

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My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

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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...

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

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

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

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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.

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I always liked strange characters.

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameTim Burton
  • DescriptionAmerican filmmaker
  • AliasesTimothy Walter Burton
  • BornAugust 25, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Writer; Designer; Animator
  • AwardsChevalier Des Arts Et Des Lettres?