219 Quotes by Tim Burton

It’s like getting into film – I didn’t say early on, ‘I’m going to become a filmmaker,’ ‘I’m going to show my work at MoMA.’ When you start to think those things, you’re in trouble.

I am not a dark person and I don’t consider myself dark.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn’t really see.

I don’t have a dog, because I travel too much. I don’t want to just leave it abandoned.

I’m gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

The problem with film is you never know when you’re going to be able to make a film so you can’t have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it’s fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

You don’t know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They’re very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

I wouldn’t know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don’t.