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 Tim Burton talks about Alice in Wonderland
At the end of November, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted an exhibit of the sketches, paintings, storyboards, props, cartoons, and puppets created by director Tim Burton. We chatted with Burton about the birth of Edward Scissorhands, the rise of 3-D, and anthropomorphic coffee pots.
How did you find a life’s worth of work to give to the MoMA?
Tim Burton: I’m not a very organized person. Luckily I had a bunch of stuff that had just been moved to England from a warehouse in America. I don’t really go through things very much, so it was interesting for me to go back through it all.
It was an interesting process. It helps ground you and gets you to remember what interested you to begin with. It’s you, but a different you. You can look at yourself objectively.
Not many directors have retrospectives of their artwork and illustrations. How did having a fine arts background influence your directorial visions?
The films I grew up loving were very visual. They were the kinds of things that get etched in your memory. To me, film is a very visual thing, so I’m very grateful for my animation background. It’s kind of everything. It’s art, it’s design, it’s film. At that time all I wanted to be was an animator, but through the backdoor you learn how to do everything else. When you make an animated film you have to act it out, design the layouts, shoot it, and edit it. It was a great overall experience. Read the details
Coen brothers to adapt 'True Grit'
As their next film, Joel and Ethan Coen will put their spin on "True Grit," the iconic Western that won John Wayne an Oscar.
Not a traditional remake, the Paramount film will be more faithful to the Charles Portis book than the 1969 pic, also distributed by Paramount.
Portis' novel is about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father's killer in hostile Indian territory. But while the original film was a showcase for Wayne, the Coens' version will tell the tale from the girl's p.o.v.
Project reteams the brothers with Scott Rudin, their partner on the Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men." The Coens wrote the screenplay.
The original starred Kim Darby as the teen, Wayne and Glen Campbell as the lawmen, Jeff Corey as the killer and featured Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper as fellow outlaws.
  Nancy Meyers directs It's Complicated"I didn't want the film to be associated with Hollywood"
How did you come up with the plot for It's Complicated?
I am not sure, because it's not as if one day I suddenly had it; but it started off as a movie about this woman, and then the ex-husband came in. And once I had decided that she has an affair with him things began to fall into place.
Are relationships complicated by nature, or do we complicate them much more than we need to?
Both! It is naturally complicated to open yourself to somebody else and let your guard down; but in this case it's even more complicated as they were married but got divorced, he is married again now to a younger woman, and she is dating someone else.
It's complicated, but also relatable.
When we previewed the movie to a public that didn't know much about it, the most common thing they said - after that it was funny - was that it was very relatable.
Is it true that you wrote the movie with Meryl Streep in mind for the lead role of Jane?
Yes, very early in the writing I started to think about her. You see I write movies, not books, and I need to picture someone saying those lines because if I just write without doing so, it's limited. Read the interview
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