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The Best Tim Burton Quotes

Here’s a selection of Tim Burton Quotes, covering topics such as love, the cheshire cat, movies, life, darkness and nights before christmas.

We really hope you enjoy these quotes and that they give you something to think about.

(To Victor, after he calls her “Miss Everglot) Perhaps, in view of the circumstances…you could call me Victoria. *smiles*
Victoria Everglot

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

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?
Tim Burton

When you’re talking about Tim Burton, you’re talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It’s like he’s got his own genre.
Jackie Earle Haley

I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen ‘Edward Scissorhands’ enough times to know it by heart. That’s exciting: to work on something you feel like you really get.
Kate Leth

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

Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It’s a joyful approach to darkness.
Elizabeth Marvel

I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn’t have done this or shouldn’t have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.
Tim Burton

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

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

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

My diagnosis,” he said
“for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh’s curse.
Tim Burton

It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
Tim Burton

I was a bride. My dreams were taken from me. But now – now I’ve stolen them from someone else. I love you, Victor, but you are not mine.
Corpse Bride

When I’m done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That’s my biggest dream.
Melanie Martinez

*crawls out from underneath table, after all the dead people interrupt the wedding reception* That’s it. We’re going to take whatever money we can and get out of here.
Barkis Bittern

I thought ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ was terrible. I’m a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don’t know what went wrong with that.
David Thewlis

When you’re making a movie, it’s a very interiorised world.
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.

Tim Burton

I’ve worked with Tim Burton five times, and it’s just like being part of a family; life doesn’t get much better than that.
Christopher Lee

Don’t worry about how you ‘should’ draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
Tim Burton

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don’t know… a regular scientist just was no one.
Tim Burton

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

If I hadn’t just been sitting in it, I’d say you’ve lost your mind.
Maggot

I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn’t really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.
Pierce Brosnan

I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.
Sam Heughan

Isn’t the view beautiful? It takes my breath away. Well, it would if I had any.
Corpse Bride

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn’t the greatest sports person.
Tim Burton

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

I don’t consider ‘American Rose’ to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy’s tumultuous life – it’s ‘Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.’
Karen Abbott

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

From that moment on, batman returns was destined to become what it ultimately turned out to be: un film de tim burton…with batman in it.
Glen Weldon

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

Son, are you happy?
i don’t mean to pry,
but do you dream of heaven?
have you ever wanted to die?.
Tim Burton

Mad matter: “have I gone mad?”
alice: “i’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But i’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.
Aubrie Sellers

I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.
Tim Burton

I’m being photographed, worrying about my hair – and yet here I am, I’ve directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?
Nicole Holofcener

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

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don’t.
Tim Burton

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn’t do.
Tim Burton

I’m gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
Tim Burton

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn’t care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.
Tim Burton

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don’t think Hollywood would’ve known what to do with me. If I hadn’t done ‘Beetlejuice,’ I think I would’ve just gone back to my school.
Winona Ryder

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

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

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You’re allowed to do it your way but of course he’s always going to choose his way.
Helena Bonham Carter

But first! A toast, to Emily. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride! Tell me my dear, can a heart still break once it’s stopped beating?
Barkis Bittern

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

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

I’ve got a… I’ve got a dwarf, and I’m not afraid to use him!
Victor Van Dort

Whenever anybody asked me, ‘Who is your number one director to work with?’ I would always say Tim Burton.
Ella Purnell

You’re entirely bonkers. But i’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
Tim Burton

I was betrothed, once along time ago but tragedy bestowed my love.
Barkis Bittern

I get so tired of people saying, ‘Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that’, and I’m like, ‘Well no, fantasy is reality’, that’s what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.
Tim Burton

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

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.
Tim Burton

My name is jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.
Tim Burton

There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody Allen and Tim Burton. Two different textures, but both get to do what they want, and that’s rare.
Martin Landau

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

[Bonejangles creeps up behind Finnis; his eye falls into Finnis’ bowl] There’s an eye in me soup.
Finis Everglot

It’s great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.
Tim Burton

I spent so long in the darkness….I’d almost forgotten how beautiful the moonlight is!
Corpse Bride

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

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

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

Die, die, we all pass away. Don’t wear a frown ’cause it’s really okay. You might try and hide, and you might and pray, but we all end up the remains of the day.
Bonejangles

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it’s been the best time I’ve ever had.
Richard D. Zanuck

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

It’s true, Victor married a dead woman! I saw her. We need to save him.
Victoria Everglot

What a story it is. A tragic tale of romance, passion, and murder most foul.
Bonejangles

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

When you’re on film or TV, essentially you’re in front of the camera. Unless it’s a Tim Burton thing, the desire is to be real and grounded.
Thomas Middleditch

I always had trouble with the bruce wayne in the comic book,” burton said. “i mean, if this guy is so handsome, so rich, and so strong, why the f*ck is he putting on a batsuit?.
Glen Weldon

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
Tim Burton

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.
Nicolas Cage

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

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
Tim Burton

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

And I jack, the pumpkin king, have grown so tired of the same old thing…
Tim Burton

Oh, Hildegarde, what if….what if Victor and I don’t….like each other?
Victoria Everglot

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
Tim Burton

Excuse me. You don’t know me, but I used to live in your dead mother.
Maggot

People told me I couldn’t kill nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
Tim Burton

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