Burton also developed a penchant for drawing and enrolled at the California Institute of Arts, where he majored in animation. In 1980, upon his graduation, he began working as an apprentice animator for Walt Disney Studios. Within a year, Burton grew tired with his work at Disney and decided to strike out on his own.
Burton, who became interested in drawing and filmmaking while quite young, attended the California Institute of the Arts and later worked as an animator at Disney Productions.
After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before breaking out on his own. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales, and gothic traditions, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.
Born in 1958 in Burbank, California, Burton grew up with an inverse relationship to his surroundings. Where Burbank was sunny and benign, Burton was moody, interested in the dark and the macabre. When other kids played ball and rode bicycles, he hung out in cemeteries and wax museums.
Encouraged by his high school art teacher and wanting a career for which he wouldn't need too much more schooling, Burton got an artistic scholarship to attend California Institute of the Arts in 1976 where he studied animation.
The genesis of Edward Scissorhands came from a drawing by then-teenaged director Tim Burton, which reflected his feelings of isolation and being unable to communicate to people around him in suburban Burbank. The drawing depicted a thin, solemn man with long, sharp blades for fingers.
Edward Scissorhands was inspired by a drawing Burton made as a teenager of a lanky man with scissors for hands. He later crafted the story with frequent Burton movie collaborator Caroline Thompson, who both based Edward Scissorhands' premise, sentiment and themes on Burton's life.
What those millions might not know, however, is that Burton believes he has Asperger's syndrome. Though he wasn't diagnosed as a child, those who knew him described him as an introvert and recluse.
With a style so distinct the adjective 'Burtonesque' was coined, Tim Burton has written, directed, and produced numerous iconic films - encompassing cult favorites, box office smashes and inventive adaptations.
The Independent reported in September 2023 that Burton and Bonham Carter had indeed been married for years before their separation, in addition to confirming that Burton is an Anglophile. On March 15, 2010, Burton received the insignia of Chevalier of Arts and Letters from then-Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand.
Tim Burton is a director, producer and screenwriter. After majoring in animation at the California Institute of Arts, he got his start in the business by working as a Disney animator.
1993–2003: Early career and breakthrough. After earning his bachelor's degree in English literature in 1993, Nolan worked as a script reader, camera operator and director of corporate films and industrial films.
After graduating from high school, he attended California Institute of the Arts. Like so many others who graduated from that school, Burton's first job was as an animator for Disney.
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton were together from 2001 to 2014, when they announced their separation. The former couple also share son Billy, 19, and daughter Nell, 15.
Burton was born in Burbank, California on August 25, 1958. His father is of Dutch, English, French, German, and Scottish descent and His mother is of Croatian, German, Norwegian, and Swedish descent.
Though they were never officially married, the actress reflected on her and Burton's split as a "divorce." "With divorce, you go through massive grief — it is a death of a relationship, so it's utterly bewildering. Your identity, everything, changes," she told Harper's Bazaar.
Did Winona Ryder wear a wig for Edward Scissorhands?
Winona Ryder allegedly turned down her role in The Godfather Part III to appear in Burton's film, on Depp's insistence, but playing Kim – a cheerleader in a blonde wig – was clearly a clash both with Ryder's own nature, and with her previous Burton role of goth girl Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice.
How many words did Johnny Depp say in Edward Scissorhands?
Johnny Depp may have broken away from the teen heart-throb mould he had created in his TV career, but he did so with only 169 words as Edward Scissorhands.
