Trivia

* He is friends with Johnny Depp.

* He was inspired early on by Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion films.

* He wears a pair of pinstripe socks as a lucky charm at every premiere and special occasion.

* When he was a child growing up in Burbank, he staged an axe murder with his brother to scare the neighbors, prompting them to call the police. He repeated the prank again with similar results.

* His fiancee, Helena Bonham Carter, was quoted as saying that the reason for his unique vision and style of directing was because she believed him to have Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism. She said that it helped to inspire his creative fuel, and was in no way a hindrance, but in fact was a great asset.

* His artwork and lots of his films are notoriously influenced by the artist Edward Gorey and his pen and ink drawings.

* He directed and worked on a music video for The Killers entitled Bones.

* His father, a former minor league baseball player, died around 2001.

* He is estranged from his brother Daniel and his mother.

* His film Beetlejuice prominently featured Harry Belafonte's hit Banana Boat Song which was co-written by Alan Arkin. Arkin plays Bill Boggs in Edward Scissorhands.

* On June 13, 2006, Burton announced that he would be postponing his work on Believe It or Not to concentrate on the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. His good friend, Johnny Depp, has been signed on to play the murderous barber.

* He frequently shows dead dogs, clowns, sheep, twisted trees, jack-o'-lanterns, scarecrows, butterflies, and redheads in his films.

* His long standing collaboration with Danny Elfman, who scored all his films since Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, except Ed Wood, which featured the noted composer Howard Shore.

* His films frequently have dinner table scenes.

* His movies always open with a personal version of the studio's logo.

* He is one of the most acclaimed directors in the world.

* The Boston-based magazine Phoenix gave Burton the title of "26th unsexiest male celebrity".

* In 2006, Burton was nominated for an Academy Award for the film Corpse Bride.

* Many of his characters have very tiny feet and long legs.

* In February 2006, in an interview he dismissed rumors of sequels to Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

* In January 2006, the website Moviemusicals.com reported that Burton may reteam with Johnny Depp on an adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd.

* His films often have a Gothic feel to them, often including Christmas and/or Halloween scenes.

* He bought the rights to a Tops trading card series, but couldn't decide between Dinosaurs Attack! and Mars Attacks!.Jurassic Park then came out, and to avoid comparison, he made Mars Attacks! instead, but then it faced comparison to Independence Day.

* He is scheduled to direct the Broadway musical version of Batman.

* He was originally set to do a re-make of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in the early 90s.

* He was slated to direct the 1986 remake of The Fly with Michael Keaton in the lead role, but he backed out and Canadian horror director David Cronenberg took over.

* He was working on a documentary about Vincent Price, called Conversations with Vincent. After Price's death in 1993 he shelved the project and it has never been completed.

* He shares a birthday with Sean Connery.

* He grew up in Burbank on Evergreen Street, and his family lived in the 2000 block, near Valhalla Cemetary. Attended Providencia Elementary School in Burbank, California.

* He frequently uses the same actors repeatedly. Among his favorite actors (who he's worked with at least twice are): Johnny Depp, Michael Keaton, Martin Landau, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Gough, Christopher Lee, Christopher Walken, Lisa Marie, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Vincent Price, Jeffrey Jones, Pat Hingle, Missi Pyle and Deep Roy.

* He was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.

* He's a big fan of Italian director Mario Bava. He once said he would like to remake Bava's classic La Maschera del demonio, with his former partner Lisa Marie. He also appeared in two documentaries about Bava.

* He was ranked #6 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People.

* Has made five films with Johnny Depp: Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride.

* He played water polo and swam for Burbank High School in California.

* He once said he never remembers his dreams, apart from five recurring dreams, one of them involving the girl he was in love with when he was a teenager and another involving his parents' bedroom.

* He's a big fan of exploitation director Russ Meyer.

* Among his cinematic influences, there are Mario Bava, Vincent Price, Roger Corman and Barbara Steele whom he homaged in Sleepy Hollow.

* He was hired as the director of the failed Superman movie.

* He was voted the 49th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, being the youngest director on this list of 50.

* His younger brother Daniel Burton is also an artist.

* In 2001 he bought the house next to his girlfriend's house in London and now the two buildings are connected by a tunnel.

* He usually wears black, because he doesn't like spend too much time matching colors.

* Nearly everywhere he goes, he carries a pocket-size sketchbook and a small watercolor kit.

* He is a Bollywood fan.

* He is engaged to actress Helena Bonham Carter since October 2001. They spend a lot of time in Paris, France. She gave birth to their son, Billy Ray, in London on October 6, 2003.

* He used the song "It's Not Unusual", performed by Tom Jones, in Edward Scissorhands and then in Mars Attacks!.

* He was engaged to Lisa Marie from 1992-2001.

* At the end of Beetle Juice, Beetlejuice metamorphoses into a bizarre creature with a merry-go-round on his head. On the top of this merry-go-round is a smiling skull which became Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas. The latter movie had been a pet project of Burton's since his days as an animator at Disney.

* He usually includes fantasy elements in his films.

* Tim is known for making very dark, epic and somewhat twisted movies.

* He said the only thing his Son seems to be scared of are his wife and him.

* He is a Vincent Price fan.

* He often likes to open his films with a quiet night time snowfall.

* His plots often focus around a misunderstood outcast.

* He married Lena Gieseke on 24 February 1989. On 31 December 1991 they divorced.

* Tim has his own production company called "Tim Burton Productions".

* He drew the original headless horseman for Sleppy Hollow, the original Batman and Edward Scissorhands.

Source: Movietome