Tim Burton acts ‘crazy’ and talks to himself on the street to stop people from bothering him.
The ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ director admits he developed his unusual defence mechanism to avoid constant attention from fans.
Burton said: ‘If you want people to leave you alone then appearing to be crazy is a good thing. If you’re walking down the street talking to yourself people tend to give you a wide berth! ‘But I’ve always been blessed with being easily ignored or avoided. I think maybe it’s because people think I look a little crazy.’ Burton - who has two children, a one-month-old daughter, who he is yet to name, and a four-year-old son Billy, with long-term partner Helena Bonham Carter - claims he has always felt like an ‘outsider’.
The eccentric filmmaker - who is renowned for his surreal, gothic films including ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ - said: ‘I have always been an outsider. As a kid I identified with the monsters in the old horror films, like the ‘Creature from the Blue Lagoon’ and ‘Frankenstein’.’
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