Playboy Interview: Tim Burton

August, 2001

Playboy Interview: Tim BurtonIt's odd that director Tim Burton keeps finding himself at the helm of big-budget studio blockbusters, because he's really not the type. Trained as a fine artist and described as a shy, withdrawn loner, he has indie filmmaker written all over him.The potential blockbuster on his slate is Planet of the Apes, a "re-imagination," as Burton says, of the 1968 science fiction classic about an astronaut who lands on an alien world where apes talk and humans are se...