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Yahoo Chat With Tim Burton!

The following was taken from Rachel Crane's Sleepy Hollow page, apparently she was there when I was. This is only a partial text and hopefully yahoo or the official Sleepy Hollow site will release a full one.

• If you weren't making movies, what do you think you'd be doing?
• + Wandering out into the desert drooling and talking to myself.
• -I read somewhere you liked the films of Jan Svankmajer, the Czech surrealist filmmaker/animator/puppeteer. Is it true? Do you think his work has influenced you?
• +I like his work. Certqain stop motion is very much what captures a dream state. So I like it for that reason.
• -I've always enjoyed the way all of your characters are outsiders. Does Ichabod Crane fit into that theme of alienation in this movie?
• +To some degree. But it's slightly different than others. +But I think I see everybody as an outsider in a way. +Even in siders are outsiders sometimes.
• -are you guys in a haunted house right now?
• +No, I'm in a haunted hotel!
• -When does Sleepy Hollow open? I saw commercials for it a while ago, but I haven't heard anything recently
• +November 19. +A big Thanksgiving Pageant! +But instead of Turkey - it's people!
• -Mr. Burton, what is your favorite part of Halloween?
• +Eating all that candy and then having to go to the dentist to have all those fillings.
• +I've always seen it as a first road to the dentist, my favorite place.
• -If you lived in Sleepy Hollow, what would be your occupation?
• +Town idiot.
• -A lot of your films are really dark, is this primarily through the lighting or do you tend to want to use filters? Are there any DOPs you really like working with?
• +I've enjoyed every DP I've worked with. +I enjoyed Emanuel, the on I worked with on Sleepy Hollow. He's a great Mexican cameraman. +So we could discuss all the great Mexican horror films. +And aspire to have a little of that vibe in this. +As for darkness, I'll try and change the exposure on the next picture. +Or you might want to complain to your local theater for the bad projector bulbs.
• -Do you enjoy watching the movies you have created
• +3 to 5 years after I finish them.
• +They are all like your children, you accept them all and all their imperfections.
• -Hello Tim, I was wondering (as a fellow Vincent Price fan) which of his movies was your favorite?
• +OO, so many! +It might have to be one of the Roger Corman Poe films. Usher, Pit and the Pendulum or Tomb of Ligia.
• -My four year old daughter loves Nightmare. Do you get letters from parents about hor much their kids like your work?
• +Yes, sometimes. It makes me very happy. Because often adults get freaked out and think kids might not like it. +But kids have their own opinions and it makes me happy when they respond to the work.
• -Did you want Sleepy Hollow to be a deviation from the formulas of your previous projects, or is there some kind of relation between all of them?
• +I just wanted it to be a deviation.
• -Are you still planning on doing Sweeney Todd?
• +Like this movie, any movie you do feels like your first and last. SO I have no plans for anything at this moment.
• -What are you doing to be for Halloween?
• +I might try going as a human this year.
• -You seem to have maintained the gothic approach to your films with "Sleepy Hollow", does it dissappoint you to see the shift of style in the Batman films from the dark image, which was quite authentic to the comic strip, to the more playful approach taken at the moment, which I believe is more akin to the television series?
• +It's hard to know what is scarier, a Gothic sort of approach, or a more Ice Capades approach. It's hard to know which is scarier, isn't it?
• -I love the visual style in your films. What goes into deciding how the 'art of the film' will look like? How much say does the production designer have? Does he/sher go by what you describe?
• +It's a very organic process. I have an idea. But when you are trying to create something special, you never, you are constantly evolving that to try and achieve that, and it happens all the way thru filming. +But, yeah, it is nice to work with people who listen to you sometimes!
• -What was the budget for Sleepy Hollow?
• +We still have a few bills coming in. I think it is somewhere in the sixties. but there are a few catering bills still coming in.
• -Mr. Burton, which person in yoru life do you respect the most?
• +Whew! I don't know...we've crashed...I don't know....I'll have to get back to you on that one! +I respect all people.
• -did you enjoy makin beetljuice back in the 80s
• +Yes. I was surprised that any studio wanted to make it. Which made it very intriguing for me. +There was a lot of improvisation . And it felt like an experiment all the way thru.
• -It appears that Sleepy Hollow is different than the other films you've done because of the dominant element of fear. Did you know how you wanted to approach the making of this film or did it come along as you worked?
• +It came along as we worked. +Like mixing a little bit of humor, with the darkness and the dramam and the horror. So it was always a tricky time to find the right balance of all of those.
• -Was the Headless Horseman's pumpkin in the original script or is it your personal trademark?
• +It was not in the original draft that I read. But I think it was in the earlier draft, and we put it back in because we wanted to pay a little bit more homage to the original story that way.
• -why did you choose UK to film Sleepy Hollow?
• +I had worked there ten years earlier on the first Batman. And I had an opportunity to work with some of the great artists I hadn't worked with or seen in ten years. +And it afforded me the opportunity to work with some of the great British actors. So it was a real international cast and crew which was a lot of fun. +A lot of funny accents going around! +Thank you! And everybody should go out now. It's Halloween! Happy Halloween!

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