219 Quotes by Tim Burton

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

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.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

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.