I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright. Tim Burton More Quotes by Tim Burton More Quotes From Tim Burton We all know interspecies romance is weird. Tim Burton weirdness biology romance 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 dark laughing people 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, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender. Tim Burton boys father children 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 girl cute boys There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake. Tim Burton classic-movie mistake people 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 hero play people I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. 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 real dream talking I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face. Tim Burton scripts ifs faces Even if you're doing something that the studio sends you, or something that's based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way. Tim Burton stories trying book 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. Tim Burton drawing way interesting 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. Tim Burton supportive careers couple Adults forget that kids are their own best censors. Tim Burton adults forget kids I worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it's a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal. Tim Burton couple meaningful years 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 would-be father years Staring Girl I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care She'd stare at the ground, She'd stare at the sky. She'd stare at you for hours, and you'd never know why. But after winning the local staring contest, she finally gave her eyes a well-deserved rest. Tim Burton girl eye winning In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. Tim Burton technology artist thinking 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 tired reality people I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically. Tim Burton treated art If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy. Tim Burton nappies meetings choices You know, those kinds of things in your life...movies you try to work out your issues, then you realize those kinds of traumatic issues just stay with you forever and they just keep reoccurring, and no matter how hard I try to get them out of my head, they just sort of stay there. Tim Burton work-out forever trying