Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.
Tim BurtonRead
Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Being passionate about something can be perceived as unusual, but it reflects self-awareness and authenticity.
In this quote, Tim Burton discusses the societal perception of passion as something eccentric or bizarre. He suggests that while such passion may unsettle others, it is actually a sign of knowing and embracing one's true self, encouraging individuals to remain authentic despite external judgments.
Themes
PassionIdentitySelf-AwarenessEccentricityAuthenticity
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about embracing one's true self.
More from Tim Burton
All quotes βThings that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
Tim BurtonRead
I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
Tim BurtonRead
Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.
Tim BurtonRead
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.
Tim BurtonRead
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Tim BurtonRead
Similar quotes
every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain
Bob DylanRead
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
Al-GhazaliRead
Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett MardenRead
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief JosephRead
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
Toni MorrisonRead
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
Fulton J. SheenRead