Burton on Burton

Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and The Nightmare before Christmas - not to mention his twisted takes on the tales of Batman, Sleepy Hollow and Planet of the Apes. Following the release of his re-imagining of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with long-time comrade Johnny Depp (who also provides a new foreword here), this updated and fully illustrated new edition of the definitive Burton interview book casts light on Burton's Burbank childhood, his early work at Disney, the recurrent themes and stunning designs of his movies, and the creative obsessions that fuel them.

Mark Salisbury is London correspondent for the US edition of Premiere magazine. A former editor of Britain's Empire magazine, he also contributes to numerous publications in the UK and US and is the author of six books, among them Writers On Comics Scriptwriting and Behind The Mask: The Secrets of Hollywood's Monster Makers. He lives in North London with his partner and young son.