Image from Tim Burton and Tim Walker’s British Vogue collaboration
There’s a wonderful Ray Bradbury line about inspiration that goes, “If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting.” When it comes to creativity, movies always seem to spark my imagination. The more unusual they are, the better.
Although his work is often more likely to haunt you in nightmares than in dreams, Tim Burton has always been one of my favorite directors. I’m not sure if it’s because he was college roommates with Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) or because he’s driven by his notorious fear of Bozo the Clown, but he does weird and he does it well. Burton’s work is essentially a carnival of creativity. From the sets to the story line, there always seems to be a little something for everyone regardless of age or interest. Whether it’s the thick stripes of Beetlejuice’s blazer or Edward Scissorhands’ borderline-bondage leather suit, the costumes of the characters are certainly always memorable.
