21 Tim Burton Quotes On Life, Creativity, And The Importance Of Embracing Your Inner Freak1.Its good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.2.People say, Monster moviestheyre all fantasy. Well, fantasy isnt fantasyits reality if it connects to you. Its like a dream. You have a nightmare, and its got all this crazy imagery, but its real. You wake up in a cold sweat, freaking out. Thats completely real. So I always found that those people trying to categorize normal versus abnormal or light versus dark, yada yada, are all missing the point.3.Maybe its just in America, but it seems that if youre passionate about something, it freaks people out. Youre considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.4.People told me I couldnt kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.5.I always appreciated movies and things that hadeverything, because thats the way I feel about life. Theres nothing thats just funny, just dramatic or just scary. Its all mixed together. Ive always felt, and still feel probably even more, that life is an incredible jumble of being funny and sad and dramatic and melodramatic and goofy and everything.6.Weve all been called [Freaks] before. When I hear that word, I hear, Somebody that I would probably like to meet and would get along with.7.We went out to draw people. I was sitting there, getting really frustrated trying to draw the way they were telling me to draw. So I just said, Fuck it. I truly felt like I had taken a drug and my mind had suddenly expanded. Its never happened to me again quite that same way. From that moment on, I just drew a different way. I didnt draw better, I just drew differently. It freed me up to not really care. It reminds me of when youre drawing as a child. Childrens drawings all look pretty cool. But at some point, kids get better at drawing, or they say, Oh, I cant draw anymore. Well, thats because someone told you that you couldntit doesnt mean that you cant. It taught me to stick to whats inside of me, to let that flourish in the best way it can.8.Its hard to find logic in things sometimes. Thats why I cant analyze things too much, because it often doesnt make much sense.9.Im a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I cant pull out of it. But I dont consider myself negative-negative. Im positive-negative. When things get really bad, the final straw is to laugh. Thats my release.10.If youve 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.11.I find that the most special thing to me is if youve connected to people in some way. If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you and you know its meant something to them and its connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.12.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 things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.13.Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.14.Ive always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me. Intellectually, I dont think like that because I get uncomfortable. Im more wary of my intellectual mind, of becoming delusional if I think of it too much.15.When you dont have many friends and you dont have a social life youre kind of left looking at things, not doing things. Theres a weird freedom in not being the school president, and not having people treat you like youre part of society, or where you have to fulfill social relationships. Youre at a distance from the rest of society; you feel like youre kind of looking out a window.16.Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.17.I find a sense of freedom in the suburbs. You assume the mask of suburbia for outward appearances, and yet no one knows what you really do Youre never so close and distant from people at the same time. Theres something about suburbia, its really a place to hide. Or people use it as sort of a mask of normalcy.18.Ive found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.19.One persons craziness is another persons reality.20.Everybody in the whole world has been misperceived. In school, you wanted something to come across this way and it didnt come across Its why you struggle as a child and you draw and you want to create. There is an impulse to be seen. For yourself: what you are.21.Every day is Halloween, isnt it? For some of us