Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton (August 25, 1958–) is an American filmmaker, animator, and artist.

Tim Burton in 2012

Quotes

• In movies you kind of work out your issues, but then you realize, those kind of traumatic issues stay with you forever so somehow they kind of keep reoccurring, no matter how hard I try to get them out of my head they sort of stay there.
  • Interview: Tim Burton (July 8, 2005)

• I never really got nightmares from movies. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?
• People say, “Monster movies—they’re all fantasy.” Well, fantasy isn’t fantasy—it’s reality if it connects to you. It’s like a dream. You have a nightmare, and it’s got all this crazy imagery, but it’s real. You wake up in a cold sweat, freaking out. That’s completely real. So I always found that those people trying to categorize normal versus abnormal or light versus dark, yada yada, are all missing the point.
• It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. It’s like weird, twisted poetry, the way kids perceive things. And quite beautiful sometimes. They kind of blow your mind and ground you at the same time
  • Tim Burton (January 11, 2010)

• There’s something beautiful about the stop-motion process, being able to touch the puppets. That’s such a personal feeling, even the medium itself, seeing the characters on the set with the lighting and everything. It’s like actually bringing something to life. It’s not the same feeling you get with a computer, where you can do amazing things, but there’s something about moving something and then seeing it come to life that connects you to the beginning of movies. That’s just a feeling; you can’t even really describe it.
  • The Tim Burton Interview: On His Return to ‘Frankenweenie’ and Why He’s Thinking About Going Indie (September 21, 2012)

Quotes by Tim Burton: "Why spend your life chasing someone else’s dreams when you can fight for your own vision?"