Posted on 10/24/2024 8:39:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Director Tim Burton has revealed that being on the internet makes him feel "quite depressed".
Ahead of the opening of a major career retrospective in London, he told BBC News: "Anybody who knows me knows I'm a bit of a technophobe.
"If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed," the 66-year-old said. "It scared me because I started to go down a dark hole. So I try to avoid it, because it doesn't make me feel good."
The World of Tim Burton at the Design Museum features 600 items which organisers say give "a rare private glimpse into his creative process" and goes on display in the UK for the first time on Friday.
Burton is best-known for directing films such as Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, as well as Beetlejuice and its recent sequel.
Reflecting on his use of the internet, Burton said: "I get depressed very quickly, maybe more quickly than other people. But it doesn't take me much to start to click and start to short circuit."
The film-maker said keeping busy and doing simple things such as looking at clouds helps him feel better. As does his collection of ten giant dinosaur models that he keeps in his backyard including a 20ft T-Rex.
Burton pulls out his mobile phone and proudly shows us a picture of a 50-foot Brontosaurus. He buys the ones you find at amusement parks, adding that actor Nicolas Cage has "real ones".
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Not personally interested in TV or movies. Realized 99% of it was brainwashing garbage over 45 years ago. And now the internet has caught up with the same brainwashing agenda.
It depends where you go on the internet.
And notice Tim doesn't say he's depressed about what's in the movies and on TV.
I suspect he doesn't like any information not brought to him by the Hollywood and TV gatekeepers.
And I would remind you that you are on the internet now.
Funny. He has no problem using the latest cinematography equipment and software. I guess it’s a sort of a compartmented dislike of technology. I doubt he drives a 1966 Beetle.
It’s animated. They aren’t scary. Do you find Herman Munster scary? He’s a corpse too.
Casting Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane started to sour the process and the people who were entrusted with writing and approving the story line and script ran the project entirely off the rails.
Why do I get the feeling he’s depressed because there are too many people not going along with the woke dis/misinformation by the world governments and global news media?
Freedom of Speech makes him sad?
He used the word dark.
Maybe he finds himself searching for things that he and everyone else should never be looking for online.
I dunno.
I think it’s his natural state
I liked Sleepy Hollow.
I just thought Depp was a poor choice and the plot line left a lot to be desired.
Of course had a lot to live up to, when Jeff Goldblum had previously portrayed Ichabod Crane in a made for TV movie in the 80s, which was IMHO, one of the top 2-3 casting choices in all of Hollywood history.
“And I would remind you that you are on the internet now. “
WHAT???
WHAT???
We are on FreeRepublic. Free Republic is one of many sites on the internet that isn't "depressing", that isn't "scary" and that isn't "down a dark hole".
No. Burton "doesn't have a point".
Not too complicated.
“We are on FreeRepublic.”
The Freerepublic is not the whole internet. Nor does it represent the whole internet in general.
I guess I’m strange but I’ve never really liked any of his movies.
Yes. Which is why I said, the internet is "what one makes of it".
There are "dark places". There are places of enlightenment.
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