Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

- Tim Burton

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 whatev…

- Tim Burton

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

- Tim Burton

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…

- Tim Burton

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

- Tim Burton

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

- Tim Burton

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 …

- Tim Burton

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 …

- Tim Burton

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 …

- Tim Burton