Quotes By Tim Burton

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I always liked strange characters.

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.

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

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

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

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