Tim Burton Quotes

I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Everything about the movie 'Dope' is real artistry, and everybody put their full hearts and souls into it. It's a passion project; it's not one of those things everybody got paid a million dollars to do. Everybody on there wanted to do it. Everybody there believed in the project, and we just went for it. We all love each other.

I do love fashion. I certainly wouldn't suffer all the stress that comes with it if I didn't really love it. I always talk about the team of people I work with every day. They share that passion.

I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

I love creating things. I love making things.

I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can't write songs, I can't perform, I can't design clubs, but I was an enthusiast. My gift was that I said yes to everybody.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

I love to work with people and do what I love.

Chris Carter is just a fantastic guy, I have enjoyed working for him, immensely. I loved this character. I don't think I can say enough about Chris. It's just a fantastic thing that he's created and I'm so thrilled that I've been a part of it. I'm very grateful.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I love architecture.

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.