"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- Private Resort (1985)
- Slow Burn (1986)
- Platoon (1986)
- Cry-Baby (1990)
- Edward Scissorhand (1990) ♥
- Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) cameo
- Arizona Dream (1992)
- Benny & Joon (1993)
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
- Ed Wood (1994) ♥
- Don Juan DeMarco (1995)
- Dead Man (1995)
- Nick of Time (1995)
- Cannes Man (1996)
- Donnie Brasco (1997)
- The Brave (1997)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) need to rewatch!
- L.A. without a map (1998) need to rewatch!
- The Ninth Gate (1999)
- The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
- Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- The Man Who Cried (2000)
- Before Night Falls (2000)
- Chocolat (2000)
- Blow (2001)
- From Hell (2001) ♥
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
- Secret Window (2004)
- Happily Ever After (2004) cameo
- Finding Neverland (2004) ♥
- The Libertine (2004)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Corpse Bride (2005) voice
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
- Public Enemies (2009)
- Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- The Tourist (2010)
- Rango (2011) voice
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
- The Rum Diary (2011)
- Jack e Jill (2011) cameo
- 21 Jump Street (2012) cameo
- Dark Shadows (2012)
- The Lone Ranger (2013)
- Lucky Them (2013)
- Transcendence (2014)
- Tusk (2014)
- Into the Woods (2014)
- Mortdecai (2015)
- Black Mass (2015)
- Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)
- Yoga Hosers (2016)
- Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass (2016)
- London Fields (2016)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)