Tim Burton QUOTES

1 " We all know interspecies romance is weird. "

2 " Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die? "

― Tim Burton , The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

3 " My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy. "

― Tim Burton , The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

4 " Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.

She has many different zombies
who are deeply in her trance.
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France.

But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets
too close to her,

the pins stick farther in. "

― Tim Burton

5 " The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
who had many eyes.

She was really quite pretty
(and also quite shocking!)
and I noticed she had a mouth,
so we ended up talking.

We talked about flowers,
and her poetry classes,
and the problems she'd have
if she ever wore glasses.

It's great to know a girl
who has so many eyes,
but you really get wet
when she breaks down and cries. "

― Tim Burton

6 " Staring Girl
I once knew a girl
who would just stand there and stare.
At anyone or anything,
she seemed not to care

She'd stare at the ground,
She'd stare at the sky.
She'd stare at you for hours,
and you'd never know why.
But after winning the local staring contest,
she finally gave her eyes
a well-deserved rest. "

― Tim Burton

7 " Stain Boy
Of all the super heroes,
the strangest one by far,
doesn't have a special power,
or drive a fancy car.

next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame.
But to me he is quite special,
and Stain Boy is his name.

He can't fly around tall buildings,
or outrun a speeding train,
the only talent he seems to have
is to leave a nasty stain.

Sometimes I know it bothers him,
that he can't run or swim or fly,
and because of this one ability,
his dry cleaning bill is sky-high. "

― Tim Burton

8 " 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 me, it just means you know who you are. "

― Tim Burton

9 " One person's craziness is another person's reality. "

― Tim Burton

10 " Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way. "

― Tim Burton , Burton on Burton

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

― Tim Burton

12 " Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. "

― Tim Burton

13 " Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.

But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick. "

― Tim Burton , The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

14 " Disney and I were a bad mix. For a year I was probably more depressed than I have ever been in my life. I worked for a great animator, Glenn Kean. He was nice, he was good to me, he's a really strong animator and he helped me. But he also kind of tortured me because I got all the cute fox scenes to draw, and I couldn't draw all those four-legged Disney foxes. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't even fake the Disney style. Mine looked like road kills. "

― Tim Burton , Burton on Burton

15 " If you've 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. "

― Tim Burton

16 " Minister: Welcome, brother! Do you reject Satan and all his works?
Bunny Breckinridge: Sure. "

― Tim Burton

17 " 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. "

― Tim Burton

18 " roses are red,
violets are blue.
a clown killed a boy,
and ate him up too. "

― Tim Burton , The Art of Tim Burton

19 " Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
What have you done to my boy?
He's not flesh and blood,
he's aluminum alloy!"
The doctor said gently,
What I'm going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you're not the father
of this strange looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child's gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender. "

― Tim Burton , The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

20 " Half the fun is plan to plan "

― Tim Burton

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