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37 quotes by Tim Burton

Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton (/ˈbɜrtən/; born August 25, 1958) 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...
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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

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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.

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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... →

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.

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