Tim Burton Quotes

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

I've never really known what glamour is.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.