TIM BURTON

Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successfuldirectors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal,taking the silliness out of the representation of children, while remainingin touch with the child within himself and his audiences. Burton emerged asa director and storyteller after working as an animator for Disney. Hismeeting with Johnny Depp enabled him to give physical form to the heroes ofhis imaginary worlds, where fear is mixed with laughter, strange is normaland those who are not normal, such as "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), must bepreserved. After "Beetlejuice" (1988) and "Charlie and the ChocolateFactory" (2005), the resolutely boyish Burton, now in his fifties, presentshis version of "Alice in Wonderland" (2010).