#Tim burton windows

Today the couple seem to have even physically morphed into one another, with their unkempt, thick, wavy brown hair, preference for dark goth clothes and shambolic style. Having first cast Bonham Carter in Planet of the Apes, the Anglophile director has cast her in every film he's made since.

They are now parents to Billy Ray, seven, and Nell, two. Having grown up feeling like an outsider, it was almost with a sigh of relief that, nine years ago, he finally felt he belonged somewhere, and relocated to London after falling for the British actress Helena Bonham Carter, 43. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times he went so far as to describe his childhood as a 'private hell', despite the fact that, on paper, he was a fairly normal boy, achieving above-average grades at Burbank High and swimming and playing water polo on the school team. No matter how hard I try to get them out of my head, they sort of stay there.' No wonder, then, that the quirky film-maker has always been drawn to the dark and gothic, so much so that you speculate whether his trademark tinted shades help enhance that peculiar vision of the world. 'In movies you kind of work out your issues, but then you realise that those kind of traumatic issues stay with you forever so somehow they kind of keep recurring. I guess they just didn't want me to escape. But my parents are dead now, so I guess the question will remain unanswered as to why they sealed me in a room.

#Tim burton windows

'Growing up, I had these two windows in my room, nice windows that looked out on to the lawn, and for some reason my parents walled them up and gave me this little slit window that I had to climb up on a desk to see out of. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

I think if you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. Looking back, it's kinda scary how solitary I was. I never really hung out with other kids and always found it difficult to really connect with people, in particular, girls. We lived near a cemetery, so I'd like to go there and wonder about the scary guy who dug graves. Recalling his formative years in suburbia he says: 'I was always a loner and spent a lot of time by myself, making up stories and that kind of thing. He first worked with Burton in 1990 as the eponymous Edward Scissorhands, collaborating six further times with Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, and now with Alice in Wonderland. Depp has been along for much of the ride, too. The film made it on to several of that year's 10-worst lists, only to be described a few years later by several of the same critics as a 'classic'. Such is the enduring mystique of the shy 51-year-old film-maker whose directorial feature debut, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, 25 years ago, offered little hint of what was to come. The frenzied crowd showed no greater excitement even when he was later joined by his long-time leading man Johnny Depp Tim Burton looked bewildered when he was treated to a rock star's welcome as he mounted the podium at last year's Comic Con film-fan event in San Diego to introduce a clip from his film Alice in Wonderland.