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 It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said. Tim Burton nice rooms ideas One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life. Tim Burton passion quality trying I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence. Tim Burton reading book thinking 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, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work. Tim Burton impact names thinking The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it. Tim Burton animation good-things ifs Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process. Tim Burton style important people 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 simplicity drs growing-up I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references". Tim Burton gravestone categories culture I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that. Tim Burton holiday bed morning Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. Tim Burton know-me comic book Now 3D is no longer a fad but I don't get all crazy about it and say that everything has got to be in 3D. It is a nice tool, like color or sound or whatever. I was quite intrigued and I learned, 3D opened up a lot of questions about how to use it. I think it is great. It's like if a movie needs to be in black and white then that's how I will shoot it. I see color as just another character or black and white as a character. Tim Burton crazy nice character I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside. Tim Burton hollywood feels way It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion. Tim Burton challenges character interesting My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse. Tim Burton pharaohs diagnosis son It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great. Tim Burton building nice people A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship. Tim Burton together long america 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 saws theater would-be 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 done decision trying I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff. Tim Burton marketing stuff looks What I feel that "Alice in Wonderland" did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined. Tim Burton issues real dream