Tim Burton Quotes

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I am so proud that 'Up' is Pixar's 10th film. I think it's the funniest film that we've ever made and also one of the most beautiful.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

Filmmaking is something that I'm really passionate about. Film, in general, is something that I'm passionate about.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.