Tim & Helena

Nobody understands how much I love their love and how much I want it. Like look at these ” Tim doesn’t do love letters. He does love pictures. To be absolutely honest, Tim didn’t really speak much when we first met on ‘Planet of the Apes.’ I said that there should be an orphanage set up for the abandoned sentences of Tim Burton. He does words, now but at the beginning he’d just give me pictures. He courted me mutely with these self-portraits of his disembodied head. Who wouldn’t fall? We ran away on a road trip and hibernated in a cabin to get to know each other. And I watched him draw and paint, little picture after little picture. “  -Helena Bonham Carter “I think I only saw her as herself twice, but I guess that was enough.I could see she was beautiful under all that stuff. So we didn’t start seeing each other until after Planet of the Apes. And then it just happened.”  - Tim Burton on falling in love with Helena Bonham Carter “It’s really enchanting. It’s such a nice life and we have fun. Tim is a great find. I think our sensibilities go well together. He is dynamic and funny, and we are soulmates … When we finally started going out, people were like: ‘How come it took so long for you to see it?’ But I suppose for a long time I didn’t look at him in that way. Now it’s like: ‘Oh, of course it had to be him.’”  - Helena Bonham Carter She’s very funny and bright and sexy and I really just connected to her. And I was honestly surprised, as I wasn’t expecting it, but that’s always good in life when you’re not expecting something  - Tim Burton on Helena Bonham Carter Well he is my Prince Charming - Helena Bonham Carter on Tim Burton Helena Bonham Carter admits that when partner Tim Burton confessed he had never seen her early movies, she made him sit through her old period pictures. When the director finally emerged from the movie marathon, she said: “He said, I can’t believe it. I must be in love.”  Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter attended the Music Industry Trust Awards where there was an auction for a TOM JONES ring. The couple spent a long time bidding against each other, when Tim finally won. He then gave the ring to Helena. The ring was £10,000 and Helena has been seen wearing it while walking about in London. “They are very much in love, and that is obvious if you only spend a few minutes in their company. Without wishing to sound negative, they are the sort of couple who are so in love that the children are secondary to the parents’ love story. She is very unguarded and genuine, and, in a way, really an innocent, and he just sits there looking at her adoringly and saying not an awful lot. They need each other very much - A friend of Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter Burton and Bonham Carter ultimately fell in love. Really in love. Speak to anyone who knows them and they will tell you that this is one of the great love stories; a truly happy ending for two shy, funny, kind, complex, emotionally weathered souls who have found their better self in the other. -  UK Vogue (July 2013)

Is love even real anymore? :/ Tilena (2001-2014)

Tilena (2001-2014)