“Anyone who knows me knows I’m a bit of a technophobe,” he told News ahead of the inauguration of a significant career retrospective in London.
“If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed,” the 66-year-old remarked. “I started to descend a dark pit, which frightened me. Because it doesn’t make me feel good, I try to avoid it.
The 600 objects in the Design Museum’s “World of Tim Burton” exhibit, which opens in the UK on Friday, are said to provide “a rare private glimpse into his creative process.”
The movies that Burton is most renowned for directing are Beetlejuice and its most recent sequel, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland.
Burton remarked, “I get depressed very quickly, maybe more quickly than other people,” in reference to his internet usage. However, it doesn’t take me long to click and begin short-circuiting.
