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Tim Burton Wiki Biography

Timothy Walter Burton was born on 25 August 1958, in Burbank, California USA. He is a well-known movie director, writer, artist and producer, particularly known for such movies as “Sleepy Hollow”, “Planet of the Apes”, “Edward Scissorhands”, “Dark Shadows”, and “Alice in Wonderland”. Tim is also known for his friendship with Johnny Depp, with whom he has created many successful movies. During his career, Tim has been nominated for and has won numerous awards. Some of them include Academy award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Producers Guild of America Award, BAFTA Award and many others. Burton still continues his career creating new, successful and interesting movies.

So how rich is Tim Burton? Sources estimate that Burton’s net worth is $140 million. Tim mainly gained this sum of money through his career as a movie director, although his other activities have also added to Tim’s net worth. If Tim continues his career for a long time, there is a high chance that this sum of money will become higher. Hopefully, his fans soon will hear about his new work and will be able to see new movies directed by Tim.

From an early age, Tim Burton was interested in movie making, beginning with short films. Tim attended Burbank High School and later continued his studies at the California Institute of the Arts. Soon after his graduation he began working in Walt Disney Productions’ animation department. Tim worked on such movies as “The Black Cauldron”, “The Fox and the Hound” and “Tron”. This was the time when Tim Burton’s net worth began growing.

Step by step Burton became more recognizable and famous. In 1984 Tim made a short movie called “Frankenweenie”. In 1985 Tim directed the movie entitled “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”, which added a lot to his net worth. During the making of this movie Tim worked together with Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones and others. In 1989 Tim directed “Batman” and gained a lot of praise and the movie became one of the most successful of Tim’s movies. In 1990 Tim collaborated with Johnny Depp on the movie, entitled “Beetlejuice”. This collaboration was a start of a long-lasting friendship and Johnny later appeared in many of Tim’s movies, for example “Ed Wood”, “Corpse Bride”, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and others. These movies gained huge success and had a huge impact on the growth of Tim Burton’s net worth. Some of the recent works of Tim include, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” and “Big Eyes”. What is more, Burton is also working on new projects, which will be released in upcoming years.

In addition to his work in the movie industry, Burton has also released two books: “The Art of Tim Burton” and “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories”. These books also increased Tim’s net worth. Luckily, Tim has many ideas and he is planning to fulfill them in the near future. This only means that soon we will see his new work.

To talk about Tim Burton’s personal life, it can be said that in 1987 he married Lena Gieseke. Sadly, their marriage ended in 1991. Later Tim had relationships with Lisa Marie Smith, and Helena Bonham Carter with whom he has two children. All in all, Tim Burton is one of the most talented movie directors. He has created a lot of successful and acclaimed movies, which are famous all over the world. Hopefully, the list will only become longer in the future.

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Tim Burton Quick Info

Tim Burton Trademarks

1. Often includes an exterior shot of a house or other structure with a character peering out of a window.
2. His heroes are often neurotic, somewhat cowardly and bizarre yet also intelligent and highly moral
3. His antagonists are often coldly superior, brutal and thuggish but avoid getting noticed by other characters
4. His stories are often set in non specific locations and incorporate elements from Britain and America
5. Many of his films prominently feature castles, churches or other old buildings
6. Extremely dark Gothic atmosphere in buildings and set design
7. Effective use of musical interludes
8. His characters are often friendly and optimistic despite their bleak surroundings
9. Long unwashed hair, black clothing and large sunglasses
10. Affectionate homages to the films of his childhood
11. Most his films tend to be either dark or colorful, and sometimes contain scenes of both.
12. Often shows factory assembly line sequences (e.g. Edward Scissorhands (1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), 9 (2009)).
13. Stripes: characters often wear striped clothing, particularly black-and-white stripes (for example, Beetlejuice, Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett in “Sweeney Todd”, Katrina in “Sleepy Hollow”, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee in “Alice in Wonderland”).
14. Fathers are portrayed in a negative light in his films. Whether they be dead (Batman (1989)), purposely ditched their children (Batman Returns (1992)), the main characters have remorse against them because of bad childhood memories (Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), or weren’t there while their child was growing up (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)).
15. Often looks into the main character’s past through a series of flashbacks (i.e. Edward Scissorhands (1990), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)).
16. Usually includes fantasy elements in his films
17. His movies always opens with a personal version of the studio’s logo
18. Often shows scarecrows in his movies
19. Obsession with horror actors: he makes movies about them (Vincent (1982), Ed Wood (1994)), or he actually casts them in his films (e.g. Vincent Price, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken).
20. Many of his films feature townspeople who misunderstand and/or distrust the lead character
21. He often likes to open his films with a quiet nighttime snowfall
22. Frequently features dead or dismembered dogs
23. Frequently casts Jeffrey Jones, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, Michael Keaton, Lisa Marie, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gough, Deep Roy and Christopher Lee.
24. Frequently uses composer Danny Elfman
25. Plot often focuses around a misunderstood outcast
26. His films often have a Gothic feel to them, often including Christmas and/or Halloween scenes.
27. Often does the beginning credits sequence with the camera going through something (Batman (1989), Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990) or following something (Batman Returns (1992), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)).

Tim Burton Quotes

• [on Johnny Depp] Johnny’s always wanting to sort of hide behind a character, become a character. I’ve always loved great character actors.
• [on Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in “Batman Returns”] I don’t really go back and look at the movies but her performance in that was one of my favorite performances of anything by anyone in any movie that I’ve worked on. It was just the best. Really, I’ll never forget her in that… I just have all these memories of her – letting a live bird fly out of her mouth and learning to use the whip and jumping around rooftop sets in high heels. The work and just the performance were very, very impressive.
• [on living in England] I love the weather more than in California. I am serious! You know, you can go for a walk in any kind of weather. In Los Angeles you immediately arouse suspicion when you’re out without a car.
• All these kinds of stories, whether it be The Wizard of Oz (1939) or Alice in Wonderland (2010), are an internal journey. I think that’s a fairly universal concept. These characters represent things inside the human psyche. I think that’s what every child does. You try to work out problems as you go along. Same thing as an adult. Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.
• If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.
• [on Batman Begins (2005)] “I saw a tape of it. It was very touching. Very good.”
• I always liked strange characters.
• I’ve always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort of psychological foundation that makes that possible.
• I grew up watching things like The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) on Saturday afternoon television. There’s a guy with his arm ripped off and blood smeared all over the wall. I never saw it as negative. I find that stuff, when it’s not rooted in reality, to be cathartic.
• 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.
• It is unfortunate that Disney closed down its drawn-animation unit. I find it quite upsetting, because they made a few drawn movies that weren’t successful and they went, `Well, that is dead, so we have to go to computers.’ They forget that the reason that they have been successful is because Pixar [whose films Disney distributes] makes good movies. Success is the real reason people try to copy things in Hollywood. Someday someone will do a beautiful cell- animation film that connects with people and then someone will say, `We have to go and do that again.’ The number-one priority should be that the story and the medium are compatible.
• [Becoming a movie director] “There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam–we were supposed to write a 20-page report on this book about Houdini [Harry Houdini]. I probably would have loved reading it, but I didn’t, so I just decided to make a little super-8 movie based on it. I tied myself to the railroad tracks and all that. I mean, this is kid stuff, but it impressed the teacher, and I got an A. And that was maybe my first turning point, when I said, ‘Yeah, I wouldn’t mind being a filmmaker.’ “
• 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. The fact that Disney closed down its cel animation division is frightening to me. Someday soon, somebody will come along and do a drawn-animated film, and it’ll be beautiful and connect with people, and they’ll all go, ‘Oh, we’ve got to do that!’ It’s ridiculous.
• [on style] I remember, I was at Cal Arts and I wasn’t a good life-drawer; I struggled with that realistic style of drawing. And one day I was sitting in Farmer’s Market sketching, and it was this weird, mind-blowing experience. I said, ‘Goddamit, I don’t care if I can’t draw, I’m just gonna draw how I feel about it.’ All of a sudden I had my own personal breakthrough, and then I could draw, and satisfied myself. I’ve had very few experiences like that, and I’ll never forget it.
• [on picking screenplays] I wouldn’t know a good script if it bit me in the face.
• [on cult director Edward D. Wood Jr.] “Nobody had his style. That’s something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there – cryptic things that most people wouldn’t understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.”
• [on the stress of delivering a summer movie in an era when release dates are often set by studios before a script is finished] It’s like you’re a runner and they beat the shit out of you and break your legs right before you’re supposed to race, and then they say, ‘Now go win the race.’
• [on WB’s lame suggestions for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)] “They thought the Charlie character should be more proactive and that Wonka should be more of a father figure, and I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Willy Wonka is NOT a father figure! If that’s your idea of a father figure, yikes. Willy Wonka’s a weirdo.’ “
• I’ll always remember this image of being in line to see When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), and all the younger kids were like, ‘Dinosaurs are so cool!’ and all the older kids were like, ‘Oh, man, I hear there’s this really hot babe in this movie!’
• [About working with Jack Nicholson on Batman (1989)] “By the time Jack walks onto the set, he feels very clear and strong about the character. So when you’re shooting it’s great, because that’s when you toy around with the levels of how broad to go.”
• [Talking about the Batman characters]: “These are some of the wildest characters in comics and yet, they seem the most real to me.”
• [the approach you have to take in movies] ” . . . you always have to feel like it’s gonna be the greatest, even if it’s a . . . you know . . . piece of crap.”
• [suburbia] “I think the atmosphere that I grew up in, yes, there was a subtext of normalcy. I don’t even know what the word means, but it’s stuck in my brain. It’s weird. I don’t know if it’s specifically American, or American in the time I grew up, but there’s a very strong sense of categorization and conformity. I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that you’re living in.”
• Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.
• [memories] “I remember when I was younger, I had these two windows in my room, nice windows that looked out onto the lawn, and for some reason my parents walled them up and gave me this little slit window that I had to climb up on a desk to see out of. To this day I never asked them why; I should ask them.”
• [genres] “I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and it’s funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked .”
• [commenting on the demolition of the Landmark casino in Las Vegas for the film Mars Attacks! (1996)] “It was like watching something die.”
• You don’t know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They’re very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Tim Burton Important Facts

• He is of English, Scottish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Croatian, and remote Dutch and French, ancestry.
• Four of his films won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction,them being Batman (1989),Sleepy Hollow (1999), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Alice in Wonderland (2010).
• He owns some “Big Eyes” paintings by Margaret Keane. One of them depicts Helena Bonham Carter with their son Billy Burton and as a surprise Margaret drew Tim’s face in the clouds, according to the book “Big Eyes: The Film, The Art”.
• President of the ‘Official Competition’ jury at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival in 2010.
• Member of the ‘Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury’ at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival in 2006.
• Often works with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
• Was interested in directing Watchmen (2009).
• Was at one point attached to direct ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’ (2004).
• Was considered to direct X-Men (2000).
• Was attached to direct the now cancelled ‘Superman Lives’ film written by ‘Kevin Smith’.
• Was originally set to direct Spawn (1997).
• Received a lifelong ban from any and all Comic Con events after the release of his Batman (1989) film, due to it having some ‘fundamental’ deviations from the canon. He reveals this on a DVD commentary track for the film.
• Cornwall/Devon filming Alice in Wonderland (2010). [September 2008]
• His childhood dream was to be in a monster costume wrecking Tokyo but since he couldn’t be Godzilla he decided to be an animator.
• Was at one point going to direct the movie After Hours (1985), but then he graciously walked off the project after he was told by the producers that Martin Scorsese wanted to direct the film instead.
• He has a phobia of chimpanzees.
• Has directed 2 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Martin Landau (Best Supporting Actor, Ed Wood (1994)) and Johnny Depp (Best Actor, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)). Landau won the Oscar for his performance.
• His favorite films are Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), The Wicker Man (1973), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), The War of the Gargantuas (1966), and The Omega Man (1971).
• Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les guignols de l’info (1988).
• As of 2009, every feature film he has directed has been nominated for some sort of Academy Award, with the exceptions of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Mars Attacks! (1996) and Planet of the Apes (2001).
• Engaged to Helena Bonham Carter [2001-2014] 2 children.
• After seeing his performance as ‘Big Boy’ Caprice in Dick Tracy (1990), he always kept Al Pacino in mind to cast as a villain in a future “Batman” installment. However, after Batman Returns (1992), Burton moved on from the franchise.
• Johnny Depp is a godfather of his son Billy Ray Burton.
• In October 2001, he began his relationship with actress Helena Bonham Carter, whom he met while filming Planet of the Apes (2001), and she has appeared in all of his subsequent films. They live in adjoining houses with a hallway that connects the two homes, they have a son, Billy-Ray Burton, born on October 4, 2003, and a girl, Nell Burton, born on December 15, 2007.
• While at WDFA, he shared an office with Andreas Deja.
• Bought the rights to a Topps trading card series with the intention of turning it into a film, but couldn’t decide between calling it “Dinosaurs Attack!” and “Mars Attacks!”. Jurassic Park (1993) then came out, and to avoid comparison, he made it as Mars Attacks! (1996) instead, but then it faced comparison to Independence Day (1996).
• There were conversations of directing the Broadway musical version of his film Batman (1989) in 2002. The opening night would have been after 2005 but the project was abandoned.
• Was originally set to do a re-make of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) in the early 1980s.
• Was slated to direct The Fly (1986) with Michael Keaton in the lead role, but he backed out and David Cronenberg took over.
• Was working on a documentary about Vincent Price, called “Conversations with Vincent”. After Price’s death in 1993 he shelved the project and it has never been completed.
• Grew up in Burbank on Evergreen Street, and his family lived in the 2000 block, near Valhalla Cemetary. Attended Providencia Elementary School in Burbank, California.
• Member of the ‘Official Competition’ jury at the 50th Cannes International Film Festival in 1997.
• Is a big fan of Italian director Mario Bava. He once said he would like to remake Bava’s classic Black Sunday (1960) with his former partner Lisa Marie. He also appeared in two documentaries about Bava.
• Ranked #6 on Tropopkin’s Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100].
• Has made eight films with Johnny Depp: Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Dark Shadows (2012).
• Played water polo and swam for Burbank High School in California.
• 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.
• Is a big fan of “nudie” director Russ Meyer.
• Among his cinematic influences are Mario Bava, Vincent Price, Roger Corman and Barbara Steele whom he homaged in Sleepy Hollow (1999).
• He was hired as the director of the failed Superman (1997) movie.
• Was voted the 49th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, being the youngest director on this list of 50.
• Younger brother Daniel Burton is also an artist.
• Usually dresses in black, because he doesn’t like spending too much time matching colors.
• Nearly everywhere he goes, he carries a pocket-size sketchbook and a small watercolor kit.
• Is a “Bollywood” fan.
• Lives in Ojai (California) and New York.
• Used the song “It’s Not Unusual”, performed by Tom Jones, in Edward Scissorhands (1990) and then in Mars Attacks! (1996).
• Engaged to Lisa Marie from 1992-2001.
• Credits his former fiancée, Lisa Marie, as his muse. She is often in his projects (Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), The World of Stainboy (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001)) or is paid homage in them (she was the inspiration for The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)’s Sally).
• He has an interest in clowns, and his films will often include them or make reference to them.
• At the end of Beetlejuice (1988), Beetlejuice metamorphoses into a bizarre creature with a merry-go-round on his head. On the top of this merry-go-round is a smiling skull which became Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). The latter movie had been a pet project of Burton’s since his days as an animator at Disney.

Tim Burton Filmography

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