Zitate und Sprüche von Tim Burton

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

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

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

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

I always liked strange characters.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded...

I wouldn't give up my family for anything. Not for all the chocolate in the world.

Everything in this room is eatable. Even I'm eatable. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

Why would I wanna send a person? They don't taste very good at all.

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

Alice: "How long is forever?"
White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

It is impossible only if you think it is.

Life's no fun without a good scare!

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

There's an empty place in my bones
That calls out for something unknown
The fame and praise come year after year
Does nothing for these empty tears

And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We're simply meant to be

Anytime you introduce scale differences in two characters acting on a screen, it complicates things immensely... but the net result is something you don't see everyday, which makes it interesting.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. And that's true. What they don't tell you, is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.

Sweetheart, you can't buy the necessities of life with cookies.

Interviewer: "What's been the best part of your new life here in town, Edward?"
Edward: "The friends I've made."

Edward: "Kevin, you wanna play scissors, paper, stone again?"
Kevin: "No!"
Edward: "Why not?"
Kevin: "'Cause it's boring. I always win!"

People are scared of things that are different.

Weems: "No doubt you'll find something that tickles your fancy."
Wednesday: "The last person who tickled me lost a finger."

Just as long as you're lakeside cheering us to victory on race day... or you can just glare uncomfortably. Whatever works for you.

Dead people are notoriously bad at returning calls.

Larissa: "So you automatically assume a Nevermore student is the murderer, even though there's no evidence a crime was even committed."
Donovan: "I'm sorry. I forgot, you only teach the good outcasts here, right?"

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

You must be the change you want to see in the world.