I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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.
I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.
Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
When he was a child growing up in Burbank, he staged an axe murder with his brother to scare the neighbors, prompting them to call the police. He repeated the prank again with similar results.
His artwork and lots of his films are notoriously influenced by the artist Edward Gorey and his pen and ink drawings.
His father, a former minor league baseball player, died around 2001.
His film Beetlejuice prominently featured Harry Belafonte's hit Banana Boat Song which was co-written by Alan Arkin. Arkin plays Bill Boggs in Edward Scissorhands.
He frequently shows dead dogs, clowns, sheep, twisted trees, jack-o'-lanterns, scarecrows, butterflies, and redheads in his films.
His films frequently have dinner table scenes.
He is one of the most acclaimed directors in the world.
In 2006, Burton was nominated for an Academy Award for the film Corpse Bride.
In February 2006, in an interview he dismissed rumors of sequels to Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
His films often have a Gothic feel to them, often including Christmas and/or Halloween scenes.
He is scheduled to direct the Broadway musical version of Batman.
He was slated to direct the 1986 remake of The Fly with Michael Keaton in the lead role, but he backed out and Canadian horror director David Cronenberg took over.
He shares a birthday with Sean Connery.
He frequently uses the same actors repeatedly. Among his favorite actors (who he's worked with at least twice are): Johnny Depp, Michael Keaton, Martin Landau, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken, Lisa Marie, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Vincent Price, Jeffrey Jones, Pat Hingle, Missi Pyle and Deep Roy.
He's a big fan of Italian director Mario Bava. He once said he would like to remake Bava's classic La Maschera del demonio, with his former partner Lisa Marie. He also appeared in two documentaries about Bava.
Has made five films with Johnny Depp: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride.
He once said he never remembers his dreams, apart from five recurring dreams, one of them involving the girl he was in love with when he was a teenager and another involving his parents' bedroom.
Among his cinematic influences, there are Mario Bava, Vincent Price, Roger Corman and Barbara Steele whom he homaged in Sleepy Hollow.
He was voted the 49th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, being the youngest director on this list of 50.
In 2001 he bought the house next to his girlfriend's house in London and now the two buildings are connected by a tunnel.
He usually wears black, because he doesn't like spend too much time matching colors.
He is a Bollywood fan.
He lives in Ojai, California and New York.
He was engaged to Lisa Marie from 1992-2001.
He usually includes fantasy elements in his films.
He said the only thing his Son seems to be scared of are his wife and him.
He is a Vincent Price fan.
He often shows scarecrows in his movies.
He frequently uses composer Danny Elfman.
He has been engaged to actress Helena Bonham Carter since October 2001.
Tim has his own production company called "Tim Burton Productions".
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