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In 2006, ex Lisa Marie sued Tim for a further share of his assets, citing the $5.5m she received when they split up as not being enough. edit »
He is friends with Johnny Depp. edit »
He was inspired early on by Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion films. edit »
He wears a pair of pinstripe socks as a lucky charm at every premiere and special occasion. edit »
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. edit »
His fiancee, Helena Bonham Carter, was quoted as saying that the reason for his unique vision and style of directing was because she believed him to have Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism. She said that it helped to inspire his creative fuel, and was in no way a hindrance, but in fact was a great asset. edit »
His artwork and lots of his films are notoriously influenced by the artist Edward Gorey and his pen and ink drawings. edit »
He directed and worked on a music video for The Killers entitled Bones. edit »
His father, a former minor league baseball player, died around 2001. edit »
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. edit »
On June 13, 2006, Burton announced that he would be postponing his work on Believe It or Not to concentrate on the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. edit »
He frequently shows dead dogs, clowns, sheep, twisted trees, jack-o'-lanterns, scarecrows, butterflies, and redheads in his films. edit »
His long standing collaboration with Danny Elfman, who scored all his films since Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, except Ed Wood, which featured the noted composer Howard Shore. edit »
His films frequently have dinner table scenes. edit »
His movies always open with a personal version of the studio's logo. edit »
The Boston-based magazine Phoenix gave Burton the title of "26th unsexiest male celebrity". edit »
In 2006, Burton was nominated for an Academy Award for the film Corpse Bride. edit »
Many of his characters have very tiny feet and long legs. edit »
In February 2006, in an interview he dismissed rumors of sequels to Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. edit »
His films often have a Gothic feel to them, often including Christmas and/or Halloween scenes. edit »
He bought the rights to a Tops trading card series, but couldn't decide between Dinosaurs Attack! and Mars Attacks!. Jurassic Park then came out, and to avoid comparison, he made Mars Attacks! instead, but then it faced comparison to Independence Day. edit »
He was originally set to do a re-make of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in the early 90s. edit »
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. edit »
He 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. edit »
He 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. edit »
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. edit »
He was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. edit »
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. edit »
He was ranked #6 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People. edit »
Has made five films with Johnny Depp: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride. edit »
He played water polo and swam for Burbank High School in California. edit »
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. edit »
He's a big fan of exploitation director Russ Meyer. edit »
Among his cinematic influences, there are Mario Bava, Vincent Price, Roger Corman and Barbara Steele whom he homaged in Sleepy Hollow. edit »
He was hired as the director of the failed Superman movie. edit »
He was voted the 49th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, being the youngest director on this list of 50. edit »
He usually wears black, because he doesn't like spend too much time matching colors. edit »
Nearly everywhere he goes, he carries a pocket-size sketchbook and a small watercolor kit. edit »
He is a Bollywood fan. edit »
He lives in Ojai, California and New York. edit »
He used the song "It's Not Unusual", performed by Tom Jones, in Edward Scissorhands and then in Mars Attacks!. edit »
At the end of Beetle Juice, 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. The latter movie had been a pet project of Burton's since his days as an animator at Disney. edit »
He usually includes fantasy elements in his films. edit »
Tim is known for making very dark, epic and somewhat twisted movies. edit »
He said the only thing his son seems to be scared of are his mother and him. edit »
He has an interest in clowns. edit »
He often shows scarecrows in his movies. edit »
He often likes to open his films with a quiet night time snowfall. edit »
He frequently uses composer Danny Elfman. edit »
His plots often focus around a misunderstood outcast. edit »
Tim has his own production company called "Tim Burton Productions". edit »
He drew the original headless horseman for Sleppy Hollow, the original Batman and Edward Scissorhands. edit »

Tim: People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice. edit »
Tim: One person's craziness is another person's reality. edit »
Tim: Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. edit »
Tim: 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. edit »
Tim: I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark. edit »
Tim: 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. edit »