60 Best Tim Burton Quotes - Uplift Life Quotes

Tim Burton is a well-known screenwriter, director, and producer from the United States. Timothy Walter Burton is his full name. Tim Burton Quotes are very famous and poetic. This filmmaker became well-known for his Gothic fantasy and horror films. He has a knack for capturing a variety of subjects and characteristics in a unique way.

His film’s unique feature is that it combines horror with fantasy in a unique way. Tim Burton’s originality and quality may be seen in the movies and the conversation of the characters. It’s also possible to locate it in Tim Burton quotes. You can get a sense of the legend’s magnificence by reading his quotes. His quotes are both inspirational and motivating.

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Tim Burton quotes about life

“Things that I grew up with stay with me.
You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life
trying to find a certain simplicity that you had.
It’s less about staying in childhood than keeping
a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

“Visions are worth fighting for.
Why spend your life making someone else’s dreams?“
-Tim Burton Quotes

“Why would you want to go up there,
when people are dying to get down here?“
-Tim Burton Quotes

“One person’s craziness is
another person’s reality.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

“My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

“Staring Girl
I once knew a girl
who would just stand there and stare?
At anyone or anything,
she seemed not to care
She’d stare at the ground,
She’d stare at the sky.
She’d stare at you for hours,
and you’d never know why.
But after winning the local staring contest,
she finally gave her eyes
a well-deserved rest.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

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

“Everything in this room is edible.
Even I’m edible.
But, that would be called cannibalism.
It is looked down upon in most societies.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

Tim Burton inspirational quotes

“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.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

10.

“We all know inter species romance is weird.“
-Tim Burton

11.

“I was never interested in
what everybody else was interested in.
I was very interiorized.
I always felt kind of sad.“
-Tim Burton

12.

“The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
who had many eyes.
She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.
We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she’d have
if she ever wore glasses.
It’s great to know a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

13.

“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.”
-Tim Burton

14.

“And in that one grey hair
I saw my whole life and I said
“I think I need a hair.“
-Tim Burton

15.

“And I Jack, the Pumpkin King,
have grown so tired of the same old thing…”
― Tim Burton,
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

16.

“Robot Boy
Mr. and Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life.
They were normal, happy husband and wife.
One day they got the news that made Mr. Smith glad.
Mrs. Smith would be a mom
which would make him the dad!
But something was wrong with their bundle of joy.
It wasn’t human at all,
it was a robot boy!
He wasn’t warm and cuddly
and he didn’t have skin.
Instead, there was a cold, thin layer of tin.
There were wires and tubes sticking out of his head.
He just lay there and stared,
not living or dead.
The only time he seemed alive at all
was with a long extension cord
plugged into the wall.
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
“What have you done to my boy?
He’s not flesh and blood,
he’s aluminum alloy!”
The doctor said gently,
“What I’m going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you’re not the father
of this strange-looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child’s gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender.”
The Smith’s lives were now filled
with misery and strife.
Mrs. Smith hated her husband,
and he hated his wife.
He never forgave her unholy alliance:
a sexual encounter
with a kitchen appliance.
And Robot Boy
grew to be a young man.
Though he was often mistaken
for a garbage can.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

17.

“Good morning star
shine the earth says hello.“
-Tim Burton

18.

“Every story has a beginning,
a middle, and an end.
Not necessarily in that order.“
-Tim Burton

19.

“They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head.
Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead.
Inside of his head was no candy or prizes,
just a few stray beetles of various sizes. “
-Tim Burton
-The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories.

20.

“Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head.
But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

21.

“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 weird freedom in not having people treat you like
you’re part of society or where you have
to fulfill social relationships.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

22.

“I am the shadow on the moon at night,
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.“
-Tim Burton

23.

“Stain Boy
Of all the superheroes,
the strangest one by far,
doesn’t have a special power,
or drive a fancy car.
next to Superman and Batman, I guess he must seem tame.
But to me, he is quite special,
and Stain Boy is his name.
He can’t fly around tall buildings,
or outrun a speeding train,
the only talent he seems to have
is to leave a nasty stain.
Sometimes I know it bothers him,
that he can’t run or swim or fly,
and because of this one ability,
his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

24.

“Can a heart break,
once it’s stopped beating?“
-Tim Burton

25.

“If you’ve 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 with you.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

26.

“Half the fun is plan to plan.”
-Tim Burton

27.

“Mad Matter: “Have I gone mad?”
Alice: “I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers.
But I’ll tell you a secret.
All the best people are.”
-Tim Burton,
Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton

28.

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

29.

“Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
What have you done to my boy?
He’s not flesh and blood,
he’s aluminum alloy!”
The doctor said gently,
What I’m going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you’re not the father
of this strange-looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child’s gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender.”
― Tim Burton,
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

30.

“I have a problem when people say
something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal.
The meaning of those words for me is
very personal and subjective.
I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding
of the meaning of those kinds of words.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

31.

“We were having dinner in a pub in the country,
and I noticed a man kept staring at me.
Outside, as I was leaving, he approached me quite innocently.
‘I hope you don’t mind me saying so,
but you look exactly like you’ve been drawn by Tim Burton.
Do you know who I mean?’
I replied that not only did I know whom he meant
but that I had two children by him and, in fact,
he was standing behind him.
The man looked around and nearly died.
-Tim Burton,
The Art of Tim Burton

32.

“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 is not creepy, or dark.
It has a positive sense to it.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

33.

“My diagnosis,” he said, “for better or worse,
is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh’s curse.“
-Tim Burton,

34.

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

35.

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.
But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.”
― Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

36.

“Get away from meeeee!”
Edgar -Frankiewinnie“
― Tim Burton,
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

37.

“Minister: Welcome, brother!
Do you reject Satan and all his works?
Bunny Breckinridge: Sure.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

38.

“Roses are red,
violets are blue.
a clown killed a boy,
and ate him up too.”
― Tim Burton,
The Art of Tim Burton

39.

“Ou’re entirely bonkers.
But I’ll tell you a secret.
All the best people are.“
-Tim Burton

Tim Burton quotes about love

40.

“One of the things that we were trying to do
with this show was the complexities of relationships and love.
There is both passion and longing and
a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

41.

“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.”
― Tim Burton,
Burton on Burton

Tim Burton quotes from movies

42.

“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.”
― Tim Burton,
Burton on Burton

43.

“Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,
then went to the cabinet where the snack food was kept.“
-Tim Burton

44.

“My dearest friend, if you don’t mind,
I’d like to join you by your side.
Where we could gaze into the stars,
and sit together, now and forever.
For it is plain as anyone can see,
we’re simply meant to be.”
― Tim Burton,
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

45.

“I’ve always been misrepresented.
You know, I could dress in a clown costume and
laugh with the happy people but
they’d still say I’m a dark personality.“
-Tim Burton

46.

“But then on meeting you, I felt I should be with you always.”
― Tim Burton,
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding

47.

“For some of us, Halloween is everyday.”
-Tim Burton

48.

“Nice work, bone daddy.”
-Tim Burton

49.

“Son, are you happy?
I don’t mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?”
― Tim Burton,
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

50.

“Movies are like an expensive
form of therapy for me.“
-Tim Burton

51.

“I am not a dark person and
I don’t consider myself dark.“
-Tim Burton

52.

“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.“
-Tim Burton Quotes

53.

“Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she’s all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.
She has many different zombies
who is deeply in her trance?
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France?
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 farther in.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

54.

“Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James,
unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.“
-Tim Burton

55.

“People told me I couldn’t kill Nicholson,
so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.“
-Tim Burton

56.

“If I touch a burning candle
I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife
It’s still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it’s not real
And it seems I still have a tear to shed”
― Tim Burton,
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story

Tim Burton mad hatter quotes

57.

“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
the animated monster musical, but that was.”
― Tim Burton,
Burton on Burton

58.

“I’ve always been more comfortable making my decisions
from the subconscious level, or more emotionally
because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually,
I don’t think like that because I get uncomfortable.”
-Tim Burton Quotes

59.

“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.“
-Tim Burton

60.

“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.”
-Tim Burton quotes

What is Tim Burton's style called?

Burton’s unusual filmography carries the hallmarks of a visual style commonly described as ‘Burtonesque,’ whether it’s Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Sweeney Todd, Mars Attacks!, Dark Shadows, or Corpse Bride.

What is Tim Burton inspired by?

Burton was a contemplative individual who enjoyed painting, drawing, and watching movies. Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl, two childhood heroes, would have a big influence on his future work.