por Tim Burton (1958) is one of the most interesting and original American film directors. He is also a producer, cartoonist and writer. He started working at Disney, and they soon fired him, even recognizing his enormous talent, since the director’s aesthetics did not fit with Disney’s.
He is a director with a very personal sense of the world, with a macabre but irresistible vision of life, and without a doubt, with which his fans fully identify. His most famous films include beetlejuice, Batman, Nightmare Before Christmas, the corpse of the bride either Edward Scissorhands.
Next, we leave a list with the best Tim Burton quotes about art, reality, cinema or madness, so that you can better understand his films and his way of seeing the world.
Tim Burton’s best quotes
-The madness of a person is not their reality.
-We all know that interspecies romance is rare.
-As an artist, it’s good to always remember to see things in a strange way.
-Movies are for me like an expensive form of therapy.
-I was never interested in what others thought. I always felt kind of sad.
-A vision is worth fighting for. Why waste your life doing someone else’s dreams?
-If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being a stranger, it never leaves you. You can be happy or successful, but that never leaves you.
-Anyone with artistic ambitions always tries to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
-I think that many children feel alone and isolated in their own world.
-For some of us, Halloween is every day.
-Most people say about cemeteries: “oh, it’s just a bunch of dead people, it’s creepy”. But for me there is an energy that is not creepy or dark. For me it has a positive meaning.
-I’m not a dark person and I don’t consider myself dark.
-Half the fun is planning.
-It is difficult to find the logic in many things. That’s why I can’t analyze things too much, because they often don’t make sense.
-I get tired of people saying that I only do fantasy. For me it’s not fantasy, it’s reality, it’s what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.
-Many things that you see as a child stay with you and you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
-There is a strange freedom in not having people treat you as part of society or in not having to comply with social relationships.
-Maybe it’s only in the United States, but it seems that if you have a passion for something, you scare people. You are considered bizarre or eccentric. For me, it’s just that you know who you are.
-Anyone who knows me knows that I would never read a comic.
-I have always been misrepresented. I could dress up in a clown costume and laugh with happy people, but they would still say I have a dark personality.
I have always liked strange characters.
-The madness of one person is the reality of another.
The normal world always scares me.