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

Tim Burton

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

If I'd said, 'I'm going to be a director,' it probably wouldn't have happened.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

I always liked strange characters.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

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

Tim Burton

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Tim Burton

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

Tim Burton