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Tim Burton Inspirational Quotes (80)

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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.
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Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
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I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.
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When 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.
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My diagnosis, he said for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
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I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
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I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.
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A 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.
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People always think I get really good reviews, but I don't. That'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.
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Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.
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Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
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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.
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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
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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.
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I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.
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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.
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I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
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I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.
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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.
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One person's craziness is another person's reality.
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I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
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I 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.
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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
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