Reanimating Minds

The Creative Process of Tim Burton

Tim Plays With Dolls

• Even if you’ve only seen one or two of his films you can tell his work immediately by the art style and contrast to the Dr. Seuss meets Goth Culture appreciation. His filmography includes work so unique that the styles show the demographic but most all of it is done in a light adult way so that children may enjoy the quality of his work too.

Childhood Fairytales Explode

His background as an animator explains some of the amazing imagery in his movies, which carry out his personal style as if he'd drawn them from emotion itself.

They are fairy tales for adults and children, with themes we all deal with blown up to operatic proportions.

Fear To Touch & Destroy

• You always have to feel like it's going to be the greatest, even if you know it's going to be a piece of crap. 

• One person`s craziness is another person`s reality.

• When Tim Burton was directing for “Edward Scissorhands,” he said on a behind-the-scenesthat as a teen he was unable to communicate, art was his escape to the outside world.

Life Unlifelike Anything Else

Tim Burton’s Proportions

• This is how Tim Burton views Characterization of a “Lifelike” character, and these show Tim’s vision of himself through a well done view of what “Life-Like” will drive you to do.

Tim And Ted On Creativity

• In a way, Tim Burton and Sir Ken Robinson are very similar. Tim Says, “You're put into a cultural framework, which gets beaten into you. To punch through that framework, you have to maintain a certain kind of strength and simplicity.”

Monster Under the Bed

• All monster movies are basically one story. It's Beauty and the Beast. Monster movies are my form of myth, of fairy tale. The purpose of folk tales for me is a kind of extreme, symbolic version of life, of what you're going through.

Tim Walter Poe or Edgar Allan Burton?

• Burton states, “I linked those monsters and those Edgar Allan Poe things to direct feelings. I didn't read fairy tales, I watched them.”