Tim Burton Quotes

“I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.”

“I always liked strange characters.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I never really got nightmares for movies. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?”

“Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here?”

“You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

“People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.”

“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.”

“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.”

“And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.”

“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.”

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”

“I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.”

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

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

“Voodoo girl

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.”

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”

“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.”

“Good morning starshine the earth says hello….”

“I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.”

“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.”

“Half the fun is plan to plan”

“My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.”

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

“They took a baseball bat
and whacked open his head.
Mummy Boy fell to the ground;
he finally was dead.
Inside of his head
were no candy or prizes,
just a few stray beetles
of various sizes.”

“And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing…”

“I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.”

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

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
he liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.”

“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.”

“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 within you.”

“Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?”

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

“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”

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

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

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