Tim Burton at his "Nightmare Before Christmas" premierA dark and misty night begins once again. The giant monolithic building towers above the rest of the city calling on the end of another day. A tall dark and mysterious figure stands with his back to the wall. Black leather clings to his arms; two large black boots hang on his feet. He is alone. No one knows his name; no one knows how he feels inside; no one cares for him. Society has thrown him aside. He can never again be one of them. This is the world of Timothy William Burton.
"I grew up watching things like The Brain that Wouldn't Die 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."- Tim Burton
Tim William Burton, born in August 25th 1958, is a Golden Globe Award-winning American film director, producer, and writer. He is most famous for his dark and often quirky themes, as seen in his cult classics Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, as well as his reinvention of the Batman film series. Since directing his first feature film Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985, he has gone on to direct and produce numerous films, many of which have received Academy Award nominations and wins. According to what people see in Burton's movies, the creepy, dark, freaky characters, it is said that Tim Burton did not have such a normal childhood at all.
Tim Burton has revealed his parents bricked up his windows as a child.The eccentric gothic filmmaker - whose hit films include 'Edward Scissorhands, 'The Corpse Bride', 'Big Fish' and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' - had to climb up to look at the world through a tiny slit as a young boy. Burton, 49, told Australian newspaper The Age: "I had two windows that looked out to the lawn. For some reason my parents walled them up and gave me this little slit window that I had to climb up on my desk to see out of. To this day I never asked them why."