Tim Burton
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.
I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.
It's people who you've seen that have given you a lot. In some ways, I felt they helped me psychologically because you see these people up on the screen going through torment and being on the outside, and somehow you relate to them, and it helps you get through life. It's a real honour and pleasure to then meet these people.
Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.
Danny Elfman, the composer, tells me the only time he thinks I'm happy is when I'm on the scoring stage, and I see the pressure's on him and it's a little off me.
One person's craziness is another person's reality.Collection: Inspirational
Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.Collection: Worry
For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.Collection: Dream
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.Collection: People
Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.Collection: Mean
I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.Collection: Challenges
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.Collection: Hero
Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.Collection: Exercise
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales.Collection: Thinking
If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.Collection: Loneliness
When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.Collection: People
It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.Collection: Surprising
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.Collection: People
Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.Collection: Dark
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.Collection: Dream
I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.Collection: Dream
Good morning starshine the earth says hello.Collection: Morning
When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know... a regular scientist just was no one.Collection: Kids
You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.Collection: Children
The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.Collection: Beautiful
Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works? Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.Collection: Brother
My kid is a product of the fast computer lifestyle.Collection: Kids
That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be.Collection: Upset
I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn't leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn't ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that.Collection: Loneliness
I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.Collection: Depression
I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.Collection: Being Alone
I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.Collection: Dream
Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.Collection: Kids
I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.Collection: Artist
Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.Collection: Character
If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you're walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! But I've always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it's because people think I look a little crazy.Collection: Crazy
I try not to go back in retrospect and say oh, I shouldn't have done this or shouldn't have done that. You make your decisions and you live by them.Collection: Decision
First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.Collection: Want
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.Collection: Emotional
But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.Collection: Winning
If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.Collection: Dog
Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.Collection: People
I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.Collection: Regret
Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.Collection: Can Do
I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.Collection: Kind
Half the fun is plan to planCollection: Fun
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.Collection: Would Be