219 Quotes by Tim Burton

It’s always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that’s got emotion.

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs!' 'How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?' You know? So, it's those kind of things that really wear you down.

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were the good guys.

I've often been accused of, 'Oh the movies looked good but there's no story,' but I disagree with that in theory, and '9' is a perfect example for me because the feel, the texture, and the look of that world, and those characters, is the story. That's a major component of why you feel the way you do when you're watching it.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.