Interesting facts about Tim Burton and his Universe

Having the financial support of the company that had hired him, Tim decided to carry out his own projects, expressing with complete freedom his creativity and style. At that time he began to make the sketch of the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Nightmare before Christmas is one of the films that managed to bring him to fame. In this film Jack Skellington is the main character who showed his surrealist and gothic style. Tim states that he is his favorite of all and that he has subtly included him in his other films, including Alice in Wonderland and Coraline.

Tim uses the same actors in his films, making them appear in each of them very often. This, helps us identifying his feature films just by looking at the characters. Among the actors are Johnny Depp, Michael Keaton, Martin Landau, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken and Lisa Marie.

Burton made an appearance as an actor in the film Solteros directed by Cameron Crowe. His character has such a short appearance that he does not even have a phrase in the dialogue.

Frankenweenie is a short film that Tim did for Disney but it was not accepted because they believed that the content was not suitable for the young audience because of the history and dark characters. Years later he achieved great success, converting the material in different formats.

Although Frankenweenie was rejected at the beginning, Burton did not stop and continued creating material with the same style, achieving success with the Beetlejuice and Batman movies, causing the producers and studios to see it, as well as the public who had great acceptance with his movies.

Burton always wears black because he believes that time is saved, thus avoiding the complication of combining colors. Along with his black suit, he carries with him a small notebook of sketches and some pencils to record any idea that comes to mind at any time.

Although he has achieved great success in Hollywood, becoming one of the most important filmmakers of recent times, Burton is a lover of Bollywood cinema and hopes to work on some project with them at some point in his life.

Tim Burton had the opportunity to direct the remake of The Planet of the Apes, and although it seems a fantastic and fun opportunity for anyone, Burton has a phobia of Chimpanzees, making this a total challenge for him.

Helena Bonham Carter is one of the actresses that we can observe frequently in the films of this director, whom she met during the recording of the Planet of the Apes. He immediately noticed the chemistry!

The film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory achieved great success and acceptance by the public, becoming one of the best known films of recent years. Despite this, Burton had some problems with the Warner Bros producer that wanted to make some changes with the story and the characters.

Tim gives the impression of being a sad and difficult person to deal with, but the people and artists who have worked with him affirm that he is a very cheerful and extroverted person.

Johnny Depp is undoubtedly one of the actors with more participation in the films of Tim Burton, with whom he has managed to create great friendship and claim to work together for life.

Burton is wearing pinstripe socks for any special event, premieres and awards, because he believes they are his lucky charm.

All the characters in Tim Burton's films have certain extreme physical characteristics, including very long legs, slender, fat, very short or very tall stature.

Tim Burton's unique style dates back to the 1920s to the 1930s, with German directors and horror films. Also the illustrations of Edward Burra.