Tim Burton is my favourite director. He was born in Burbank in 1958. After school he won a scolarship to study at the California institute of the arts where he became keen on animation. After three years of studying he got a job at the Walt Disney studios, but his drawing and his ideas where well too dark and scary for the company that didn't appreciate his work. In 1982 he left the Disney studios and realized his first short stop motion animation, Vincent, that talks about the story of a child who wants to be like Vincent Price,who is actually the narrating voice of story. Then he obtained from Disney the money to realize Frankenweenie where he converted Mary Shelley'story Frankenstein in a children's tale.

After that he realized in 1989 one of his most famous movies Batman with Michael keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger. Thanks to the success of this movie he founded the Tim Burton production and in 1990 he realized Edward Scissorshand which was Jhonny Depp's debut.
In 1993 Burton produced Nightmare before christmas which is considered is masterpiece. Althougt he didn't direct the movie, he draw and made all the characters and left the direction to his friend Henry Selick who realized the movie with the stop motion technique.
Again in 2003 Burt will realize another of his big success, Big Fish - stories of an incredible life, which is a little different from the usual dark atmosphere of his movies. Indeed the film is really colourful and surreal, the main character is immersed in a fantasy world where reality and imagination are melt together.

In 2005 he realized a new movie Charlie and the Choccolate factory and a new animation The Corpse Bride. In 2007 he won the golden lion for his career at the Venice film festival.

His latest work are Sweeney Todd which is an adaptation of a Broadway musical and Alice in wonderland, a remake of the famous story of Alice who goes in a fantasy world after cheasing a white Rabbit.

I like this director because he is far from the flashes and the gossips and only talks and express his feelings through his works. I also like his romantic spirit and the way his stop motion animations depict the values and the ideas of the romantic poets and writers of the 19th century. The gothic style of the scenes, the horror stories, the sense of darkness, anxiety and melanchony, the feeling of escaping and exploring other places to find the answers to the unexplainable are all typical of the Romantic age literature. But also he knows how to bring his character to life and his extraordinary imagination makes him a great artist and a great director.