All the great classics like The Hunchback Of Notre Dame started coming to me, and they all compiled in this big mass. When I first met with Tim, we talked for two or three hours - me and Tim and Denise Di Novi, the producer. I think we had similar images of the character. I saw Tim's drawings, and everything just clicked. Unique vision Burton, a former animator for the Walt Disney Co., brought his unique vision to Pee-wee's Big Adventure , Beetlejuice and Batman .
Dogs have that unconditional love.
If you scold a dog, he cowers in a corner. As soon as you call him back, he's there, and all is forgotten. A lot of the things that Tim and I talked about was just to maintain the purity of the character. Edward has lived in the attic of this mansion for seven years, and when he comes into suburbia, everything was beautiful and fascinating to him. I just tried to function normally with these long shears.