Tim Burton Quotes

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

There is a child in all of us.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

There's a bit of the kid in me.