Frasi di Tim Burton

“Ho capito di aver creato con i miei film un club ideale per gli eterni ragazzi che amano i falliti, la libertà, i marziani e le donne che ti seguono con una valigia in mano come la mia compagna Helena Bonham Carter.”

“Come regista devo per forza essere un bugiardo.”

“Ti auguri sempre che il cinema sia una delle cose che possono restare. Essendo cresciuto con il cinema, a rischio di essere banale, per me ha sempre il suo fascino stare in una stanza buia e ascoltare e vedere qualcosa. Io spero sempre di trovare lì delle risposte e delle sicurezze.”

“La follia è, in un senso quasi spaventoso, la massima libertà possibile perchè ti libera dagli obblighi nei confronti della società.”

“Odio la burocrazia, non l'ho mai sopportata. Blocca le cose, le persone da una vita creativa. È contro tutte le cose di cui si occupa la vita.”

“Vanità scriverà qui riposa il vecchio Jack.”

“Ho sempre adorato l'immaginario di Lewis Carroll, è così poco politicamente corretto. Voglio dire: una bottiglia di qualcosa, che dice "bevimi", e poi dei funghetti…”

“Guardare i loro film, sia quelli di Fellini che quelli di Bava, provoca in me uno stato di sogno. Sebbene siano molto diversi tra loro, mi danno entrambi una condizione onirica molto viva.”

“Sfortunatamente appartengo alla generazione televisiva americana, quella cresciuta davanti alla TV, quindi da bambino non leggevo molto a dir la verità. Adoravo guardare i film, soprattutto quelli di mostri. Li vedevo come miti o favole.”

“In un certo senso per me raccontare una storia è sempre una sorta di viaggio spirituale, dove però rimani te stesso, cresci, impari qualcosa e passi al livello successivo. È questo quello che conta per me. E io lo applico al cinema, come nella vita personale.”

“È la natura surreale di Hollywood: innamorarsi istantaneamente di idee che almeno sulla carta sono pessime! E non si può non amarla proprio per questa ragione!”

“Intervistatore: Lei è seguito in tutto il mondo da milioni di fans. Cosa pensa di aver dato loro con il suo lavoro?”

“A Hollywood ci vado solo per lavorare, non vivo più a Los Angeles, la mondanità non mi piace, mi sento vicino ai miei personaggi poco integrati e in conflitto con la società: anch'io tendo a interiorizzare tutto, sono chiuso, solitario e arrabbiato.”

“Sono sempre stato mal rappresentato. Sai, potrei vestirmi con un costume da clown e ridere con le persone felici, ma direbbero comunque che sono una personalità oscura.”

“I always liked strange characters.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mad Matter: "Have I gone mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

“I never really got nightmares for movies. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?”

“For some of us, Halloween is everyday.”

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

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

“I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.”

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

“We all know interspecies romance is weird.”

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

“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.”

“Voodoo girl

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.”

“Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.”

“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.”

“Good morning starshine the earth says hello….”

“I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.”

“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.”

“Half the fun is plan to plan”

“You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”

“People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.”

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

“I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.”

“They took a baseball bat
and whacked open his head.
Mummy Boy fell to the ground;
he finally was dead.
Inside of his head
were no candy or prizes,
just a few stray beetles
of various sizes.”

“And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing…”

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

“My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.”

“One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.”