Latest Tim Burton Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that's great. That's where you have that bubble to create something in.

  Tim Burton

  Hollywood, World, Matter

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• 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

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• 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

  Dream, Real, Issues

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

• Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Tim Burton

  Can Do

  Source: www.chud.com

• I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.

  Tim Burton

  Regret, Choices

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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

  Mistake, People, Classic Movie

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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

  Decision, Trying, Done

  Source: www.chud.com

• I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

  Tim Burton

  Challenges, Knows

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.chud.com

• Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

  Tim Burton

  Grew Up, Form, Grew

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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

  Loneliness, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.chud.com

• Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

  Tim Burton

  Kids, Adults, Forget

  Source: www.chud.com

• 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, Looks, Stuff

  Source: www.chud.com

• I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

  Tim Burton

  Luck, Animation, Wells

  Source: www.chud.com

• I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches - especially when you're a child - it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

  Tim Burton

  Spiritual, Children, Other Cultures

  Source: www.chud.com

• I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked upon as a dark subject and living so close to Mexico where you see the Day of the Dead with the skeletons and it's all humor and music and dancing and a celebration of life in a way. That always felt more of a positive approach to things. I think I always responded to that more than this dark, unspoken cloud in the environment I grew up in.

  Tim Burton

  Growing Up, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.chud.com

• Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.

  Tim Burton

  Character, Looks, Care

  Source: english.eastday.com

• That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

  Tim Burton

  Character, Monsters, Different

  Source: english.eastday.com

• I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

  Tim Burton

  Actors

  Source: english.eastday.com

• 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

  Thinking, Symbolism, Magic

  Source: english.eastday.com

• 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

  Meaningful, Couple, Years

  Source: english.eastday.com

• I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

  Tim Burton

  Artist, Great Art, Great Artist

  Source: english.eastday.com

• That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.

  Tim Burton

  Beautiful, Joy, Film

  "Interview: Tim Burton Talks Big Eyes, Margaret Keane, and More". Interview with Elise Nakhnikian, www.slantmagazine.com. December 19, 2014.

• If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.

  Tim Burton

  Dog, Powerful, Real

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.