Tim Burton

“I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or not normal. There's no normal.”

“Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from nature.”

“I always thought of the suburbs as being a magical place.”

“I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.”

“If I had a choice about going to a party or staying home and watching a movie, I'd stay home.”

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”

“It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.”

“Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making other people's dreams?”

“For me, fantasy has always been a way of exploring reality: the world we live in.”

“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you.”

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

“Drawing is a way of figuring things out.”

“A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture that.”

“I am not a dark person. I'm actually quite special.”