Tim Burton
- Country : United States
- Profession :Filmmaker, Artist and Writer
- DOB: 1958-08-25
Tim Burton, born August 25, 1958, is an American filmmaker known for his dark, fantastical style. Raised in Burbank, California, Burton’s passion for drawing led him to study at the California Institute of the Arts. His career took off with Disney’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” (1985), and he went on to direct iconic films like “Beetlejuice” (1988), “Edward Scissorhands” (1990), and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993). With a unique blend of gothic aesthetics and whimsical storytelling, Burton became a cinematic visionary. His collaborations with actor Johnny Depp and composer Danny Elfman further solidified his influence on the fantasy genre.
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position
Author: Thom MayneI’m a thug. And my thug comes from… my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling
Author: Tim BurtonThat’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.
Author: Tim BurtonThat’s why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.
Author: Tim BurtonJohnny 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.
Author: Tim BurtonHe can’t fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!
Author: Tim BurtonI remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.
Author: Tim BurtonIf you 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.
Author: Tim BurtonIt’s very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything’s fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said
Author: Tim BurtonIt’s like an ‘Alien’ movie. I started crying, it was so emotional … I was there in the room but I wasn’t planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, ‘What the hell is that?’ And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It’s just shocking.
Author: Tim BurtonA lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
Author: Tim BurtonI 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
Author: Tim BurtonEven if you’re doing something that the studio sends you, or something that’s based on a book or story, at the end of it all, you try to make whatever it is your own. This is based on my love of horror movies. Everything is based on something, in some way.
Author: Tim BurtonThe problem with film is you never know when you’re going to be able to make a film so you can’t have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it’s fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up
Author: Tim BurtonI 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
Author: Tim BurtonFor 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.
Author: Tim BurtonThat’s why I don’t go on the Internet much – because you can go down a dark hole looking at stuff. Once, I clicked on my name and freaked out. It’s too bizarre, it’s too weird, it’s too unsettling.
Author: Tim BurtonThat’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
Author: Tim BurtonIt’s always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that’s got emotion.
Author: Tim BurtonI had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked
Author: Tim BurtonI’m not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they’re like – I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn’t very happy about that.
Author: Tim BurtonI don’t have a dog, because I travel too much. I don’t want to just leave it abandoned.
Author: Tim BurtonI always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
Author: Tim BurtonIf there’s one thing that looks cool, that’s fine by me. I’m not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.
Author: Tim BurtonHe 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.
Author: Tim BurtonI have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches – especially when you’re a child – it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.
Author: Tim BurtonI 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.
Author: Tim BurtonI never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.
Author: Tim BurtonNo matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that’s great. That’s where you have that bubble to create something in.
Author: Tim BurtonThings you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.
Author: Tim BurtonMovies you try to work out your issues, then you realize those kinds of traumatic issues just stay with you forever and they just keep reoccurring, and no matter how hard I try to get them out of my head, they just sort of stay there.
Author: Tim Burton
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.
Author: Tim BurtonNobody had his [Ed Wood’s] style. That’s something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there – cryptic things that most people wouldn’t understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.
Author: Tim BurtonIf I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy
Author: Tim BurtonSon, are you happy? I don’t mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
Author: Tim BurtonWhat I feel that “Alice in Wonderland” did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined.
Author: Tim BurtonFirst of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.
Author: Tim BurtonUnwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
Author: Tim Burton
One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.
Author: Tim BurtonTechnology is technology and then art form and people’s creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything – great! Technology for technology sake doesn’t mean much to me anyway.
Author: Tim BurtonI always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Author: Tim BurtonWhat I feel that “Alice in Wonderland” did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined
Author: Tim BurtonFirst of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.
Author: Tim BurtonUnwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
Author: Tim BurtonNobody had his [Ed Wood’s] style. That’s something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there – cryptic things that most people wouldn’t understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.
Author: Tim BurtonSon, are you happy? I don’t mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
Author: Tim BurtonIf I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I’d choose the nappy.
Author: Tim BurtonWhen I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don’t know… a regular scientist just was no one.
Author: Tim BurtonTechnology is technology and then art form and people’s creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything – great! Technology for technology sake doesn’t mean much to me anyway.
Author: Tim BurtonMost 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.
Author: Tim BurtonOne 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.
Author: Tim BurtonOne of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story
Author: Tim BurtonIt’s really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it’s great.
Author: Tim BurtonI’m going to put that on my gravestone. “He created such a category of unwanted pop culture – Famous for directing unwanted cultural references
Author: Tim BurtonThe good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
Author: Tim BurtonI always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Author: Tim BurtonMy diagnosis,” he said “for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh’s curse.
Author: Tim BurtonI don’t know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighborhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
Author: Tim BurtonA journalist in America told us that we’d [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we’re a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.
Author: Tim BurtonWhen 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.
Author: Tim BurtonEverything in this room is edible. Even I’m edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
Author: Tim BurtonJack Nicholson is a textbook actor who’s very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real
Author: Tim BurtonMummy 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
Author: Tim BurtonI wasn’t a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn’t make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.
Author: Tim BurtonI worked at Disney many years ago. They just let me sit in a room for a couple of years and draw whatever I wanted to draw, so it’s a very personal thing to me. Drawing and everything you do there is something meaningful and personal.
Author: Tim BurtonI’ve found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.
Author: Tim BurtonThere’s something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you’re setting yourself up for a mistake.
Author: Tim BurtonIt 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.
Author: Tim BurtonI 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
Author: Tim BurtonWhen we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.
Author: Tim Burton