Complex sentence: In the article, Burton slams Smith's claims ("Anyone who knows me knows that I would never read a comic book, by Kevin Smith"), and apparently had much more to say, but the article had already gone to press.
Split into simpler sentences: In the article, Burton slams Smith's claims ("Anyone who knows me knows that I would never read a comic book."). Tim Burton apparently had much more to say, but the article had already gone to press.