Tim Burton Quotes

“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

“How long is forever?
Sometimes just one second”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“For some of us, Halloween is everyday.”
― Tim Burton , Tim Burton

“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

“Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.”
― Tim Burton

“Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be!
Jack Skellington: *No.*
[the Mayor switches to his upset face]
Jack Skellington: How *jolly*!
Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be”
― Tim Burton

“If I touch a burning candle
I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife
It's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
And it seems I still have a tear to shed”
― Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story

“I had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they're just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was.”
― Tim Burton, Burton on Burton

“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.
But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.
You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier.”
― R.S. Vern, The Unconventional Life of Haee

“Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.”
― Tim Burton

“From that moment on, Batman Returns was destined to become what it ultimately turned out to be: un film de Tim Burton...with Batman in it.”
― Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

“I always had trouble with the Bruce Wayne in the comic book," Burton said. "I mean, if this guy is so handsome, so rich, and so strong, why the fuck is he putting on a Batsuit?”
― Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

“Six impossible things. Count them, Alice.
One, there's a potion that can make you shrink.
Two, a cake that can make you grow.
Three, animals can talk.
Four, cats can disappear.
Five, there's a place called 'Wonderland.'
Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky."

- Alice Kingsleigh in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland