Tim Burton Quotes

It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

The journey is my home.

When I finish a movie, I get in my camper and drive around the country.

I go to many different places many times, but I miss my house constantly.

I miss being out on the road.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore.

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

I came home for a week after I finished filming 'Rambo' because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to.

Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.

Rather than missing home when I'm on tour, I miss tour when I'm at home.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

I spend a lot of time in London and I miss California. Of course, when I'm in California I miss London.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.