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After just a year, though, at the age of 20, he dropped out and went to work for Disney, “which seemed much more important to me at the time than getting a degree.”īurton had grown up in Burbank, where Disney is based, but “even though it was close it felt like a million miles away,” he says. Despite criticism of his style from certain teachers, at some point, he says, he decided, “I’m just going to draw the way I want to draw and not worry so much about what other people think of it and just enjoy doing it as a thing.” He was talented enough that, after graduating from high school, he won a scholarship to CalArts, the noted visual and performing arts school established by Walt Disney in the early sixties as a sort of farm system for his animation studio. His creative outlet - and opportunity to escape into an alternative reality - was drawing. Just because you like monster movies, people though you were weird, which I always felt was an odd thing.” In fact, he related to the characters at the center of movies like Frankenstein (1931): “He’s perceived as a monster, even though he isn’t really.

“You feel kind of different and isolated and you don’t feel like you fit into your surroundings,” he recalls. He hated growing up in a suburb, was never close with his parents, and other kids found him odd. His childhood wasn’t a particularly happy one. “He was probably the person that got me more interested in animation than any other form of filmmaking.”īurton was born in Augin southern California. “I think I knew his name before I knew any director or actor names,” he says. That was my genre.” He also loved animation, particularly of the stop motion variety popularized by Ray Harryhausen. “I grew up watching the Universal horror movies, Japanese monster movies and pretty much any kind of monster movie. “You might be able to tell I was a big monster fan,” Burton tells me. There were also colored markers within reach - he has loved to draw for as long as he can remember, and was in town talk about Frankenweenie, the animated feature for which he is now a best animated feature Oscar nominee, and on behalf of which he had attended the Oscar nominees luncheon the previous day. Nearby was a plastic container marked “Tim’s Toys,” several of which had been removed and placed on a desk to make him feel at home during an extended stay in Los Angeles. The 54-year-old looked like a character in a Tim Burton film - endearingly fragile and yet also otherworldly - with a broken arm in a sling, a big mischievous smile on his face and his hair awry like the “mad scientist” he once dreamed of becoming. We quickly figured out that he was wrong.)

#TIM BURTON CHARACTERS TUMBLR MOVIE#

(My dad thought that Edward Scissorhands was a movie for kids. Last week, I sat down in a suite at the Chateau Marmont across from the writer-director-producer-animator Tim Burton, who made many of the most memorable movies of my childhood, including the first film that I ever saw in a movie theater.

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