Tim Burton
Tim Burton
Timothy Walter "Tim" Burtonis an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic and quirky fantasy films such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, the animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, the biographical film Ed Wood, the horror fantasy Sleepy Hollow, and later efforts such as Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Dark Shadowsand Frankenweenie. He is also known for blockbusters such as the adventure comedy Pee-wee's Big Adventure, the superhero...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 August 1958
CityBurbank, CA
CountryUnited States of America
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes.
It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.
In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.
I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.
Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.