European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hillel Italie the associated press i in Burton is Young Only 32. His hair is Long too Long falling Over his face and sticking out at the sides. His dreamy eyes gaze As if a movie screen is on the Distant Wall. He has a Lazy Grin and a nervous unsettling laugh. Hardly the kind of person you a put in charge of a major motion picture but Burton has managed quite Well. He a one of Hollywood a hottest properties the director of the Mega budget Mega smash Batman and the offbeat hit Beetle juice. 7�?T77 7 -77/- 77 7 7.7 a it makes perfect sense to him he simply Points to his High school experience. There were three kinds of male students he recalls athletes very popular with the girls academics preferred by the teachers and the a freaks a people meant perhaps to find themselves a Little later in life. It went to my 10-year High school reunion a few years ago a Burton recalled in a recent interview. A it was so amazing. Some people peaked in High school. Everybody i saw who was considered an outcast a i did no to see one example where this Wasny to True a they were incredibly attractive and successful. 7 .7 7 7 a 7" a you got to get it out some Way. If you get everything you want you re not going to have those desires. You done to have that eternal conflict of getting something  his new film Edward scissor hands is a Holiday fable about a a a Freak Johnny Depp rescued from his broken Down mansion High above town. And taken to the Nice suburban Home of a Friendly Avon lady Dianne Wiest. A Punk in Whit face and Black leather Edward was constructed by an aging scientist Vincent Price of course who died before he could make a pair of hands. -7 f a -7 7./ a an array of scissors Are there instead. The neighbors All take to Wiest a unusual guest who endears himself by using his a a hands to artfully trim Hedges poodles and women a hair. Quot a .7 ��?�7 7. 77 a7. But Edward also has a soul. He a in love with Wiest a Beautiful and popular daughter Winona Ryder Depp a Girlfriend in real life and must fight Nasty Boyfriend Anthony Michael Hall for her affection. 7 a a it a a classic fairy tale an image of creation and of destruction Beauty and horror touching and not touching a Burton said. A a it san externalization of How you feel at Odds with yourself  Beetle juice fans will appreciate the campy sets with brightly painted monochromatic houses As Well As Matching clothes and billboards food too. 7 a a. A 7 a a. 7. Burton said he was trying to be funny and also wanted to make a Point How people see others on just one level applying Catchall phrases that deny any complexity./-7 7 a people say a you re this you re  i think there a a necessity for people to categorize. I think it helps make them comfortable a Burton. 7 7 a a Goff on film co. A a Beetle juice creature from the strange mind of Tim Burton. Said. A and some of the weirdest people in be known get it the worst. If people can to put you into a category they re inclined to jus write you off As a  7 7 7 7 a a a Burton who grew up in Burbank calif., watched science fiction and horror filth As a kid and first showed Talent As an artist by designing an anti litter poster in the ninth Grade that a graced the sides of local garbage trucks. After High school he attended the California Institute of the arts on u Disney Fellowship and soon joined Walt Disney studios As an animator working on the Fox and the hound and the Black cauldron. 7 Price was the inspiration a and the narrator a for Burton a first film Vincent an animated Short completed when the director was just 23. Burton a next project was Franke Weenie his first live action film. 7 a it happened just by osmosis that need to want to do something. I did no to care How it manifested itself. I did no to care if it was drawing animation whatever. Animation was a Little too tedious for me. Live action was better because it was immediate and helped me come out of my Shell a he said. 7 7 7 he followed with pc Wecks big adventure and then Beetle juice the Wacky ghost Story that helped make stars of Ryder Michael Keaton Gena Davis and Alec Baldwin. The script had a no Story a Burton recalled. It was a incredibly vague and contradicted itself ail Over the place. I can to to this Day say if it was Good or not. You just Felt someone a personality in  7.7>. 777 7 a / v .7 Burton is confident hell keep getting better. He thinks history a Hollywood history a is on his Side. Some of the great directors a John Huston Billy Wilder Preston Sturges a Hadnot even made films at his age. Burton said he a still devel. Oping still learning to express himself. Taflan film co. Tim Burton on the set