I like actors who like to change and transform to other things. Tim Burton More Quotes by Tim Burton More Quotes From Tim Burton Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams? Tim Burton dreammotivationalinspirational Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. Tim Burton always-tryingambitionchildren Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual. Tim Burton unusualstrangepeople One person's craziness is another person's reality. Tim Burton i-hate-youinspirationallife For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues. Tim Burton realdreammean Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it. Tim Burton shouldworryway 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 meanamericapeople I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do. Tim Burton challengesknows I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales. Tim Burton magicsymbolismthinking When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships. Tim Burton like-youkindpeople 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. Tim Burton confusedrealpeople 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 lonelinesssuccessfulfeelings I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn't leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn't ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that. Tim Burton lonelinesssuccessfulthinking Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination. Tim Burton drawingimaginationexercise I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright. Tim Burton moondreamnight You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves. Tim Burton artistkidschildren Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. Tim Burton gamblingmovieactors It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you. Tim Burton surprisingknows I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real. Tim Burton realdreamkids 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 scarydarkdepression
