"I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me. Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. I'm more wary of my intellectual mind, of becoming delusional if I think of it too much. "

Tim Burton is an Oscar nominated film director known for an off-beat style. He is best known for his famous work, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

As a child, Burton was obsessed with the films of Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe tales. He describes his childhood as quirky, self-absorbed and highly imaginative.

After high school, he won a scholarship to the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied animation. Disney hired Burton as an animator apprentice out of college. He was first assigned to the film adaption of The Lord of the Rings, but is uncredited for this work. Later, he worked did the drawing for The Fox and the Hound.

Burton created his first film, Vincent in 1982. The film is of a boy who flashes from reality to fantasy in six minutes. Following, her created Frankenweenie, which made deceased pets come back to life; the film was named unsuitable for children. It was made on a budget of $7 million, but earned over $40 million at the box office. His second major film, Beetlejuice brought in $80 million.

Burton when on to direct several imaginative films including, Batman Returns (1992), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Corpse Bride (2005). Burton also co-wrote and produced The Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach. Burton has written the book, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: and Other Stories.

Most of Burton's characters are outsiders, and tend to be pale and stadoffish. He enjoys using dead dogs, clowns, sheep and scarecrows in his films; many of his characters where black-and-white stripes, crooked spirals, and curly edges.