219 Quotes by Tim Burton

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company – there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

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

Son, are you happy? I don’t mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

But then on meeting you, I felt I should be with you always.

Can a heart break, once it’s stopped beating?

It’s hard to find logic in things sometimes. That’s why I can’t analyze things too much, because it often doesn’t make much sense.

He can’t fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

Disney and I were a bad mix. For a year I was probably more depressed than I have ever been in my life. I worked for a great animator, Glenn Kean. He was nice, he was good to me, he’s a really strong animator and he helped me. But he also kind of tortured me because I got all the cute fox scenes to draw, and I couldn’t draw all those four-legged Disney foxes. I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even fake the Disney style. Mine looked like road kills.

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.