“Everyone thought it was the most ridiculous and absurd movie and it is coming true“said the American director Tim Burton in Marrakesh when asked about the movie Mars Attacks and the taking possession of donald trump in February, although he detailed that, as an “alien” that he has felt since he was a child, he has no political affiliation.
“The whole world is strange to me,” Burton added during an event with the public held at the Marrakech International Film Festival, in which he spoke about his childhood, his inspirations, his monsters, his past in animation and the way in what now she feels like “a 13 year old girl” in a 66 year old body.
Burton, director of countless hits defined by their gothic scenery and eccentric characters, explained how Donald Trump appeared in a dream his recent. “I was having dinner at Trump’s house, which was not Mar-a-Lago, he lived in a suburb (..) And he cut my hair,” he explained.
The director of Edward Scissorhands, batman either Beetlejuice He seemed surprised to have had a such a long relationship with the big Hollywood studios, which, he said, “have become more corporate, with less room for people like me.” He remembered his time as an entertainer in disneywhen he was 23 years old. “I was never a Disney person, that’s why it was so strange for me to work there. I wasn’t a very good animator, was the black sheep of the family.”
Burton is “surprised” that all the films he has made have been made with big studios. “I don’t know how I survived there,” joked the director, who now there are fewer independent films that reach the public. “There are independent films, but the problem is how they are distributed and how people can see them. This world of algorithms seems to categorize things and leaves less room for individuality and creation,” he summarized.
Regarding his imagination, Burton related that as a child I didn’t read much, but I watched monster movieswith which he felt identified: “The monsters were the most sensitive and judicious characters, on the other hand, the humans were characters with a single dimension and who tried to kill something they could not understand. I identified with these characters (the monsters). , people told me I was weird.”
And regarding the fairy tale world that he transfers to some of his films, he stated that when he reads them, he finds in them “a lot of horror imagery.” “I’ve always been confused by what people think about what children’s stories and stories for adults are, because children’s stories are quite extreme“.
For Burton, his films are hyperrealistic for him“but for no one else”, and when asked about his children he said that he does not believe they have seen his works. “They’re just not interested. They like me, but I think it’s healthy that they are not obsessed with methat’s what kids have to do, find their own way.”
And about her age, she assured that she feels “like a 13-year-old girl. “It’s my mental age at the moment, I’m still going down, until I’m a baby, I don’t know,” she joked in the meeting, which lasted longer. of one hour, in which He did not want to reveal his next project because in hollywood “You think you do something until they tell you not to.”