TIME got the chance to interview Tim Burton at the MoMA event he and other Wonderland stars attended a couple of days back. Check out the video interview below!

The director Tim Burton doesn’t just make enchantingly loony movies like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He also makes enchantingly loony paintings and drawings, which he’s been scribbling away at since his suitably alienated childhood in Burbank, California.

This week the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened a big show devoted not only to Burton’s films but to those works on paper and in other media. I caught up with him last week in one of the galleries of that show, where we talked on camera about the role of drawing in his own creative processes, artists who influenced him, and whether some of his monsters don’t look a little vulnerable.

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Guardian.co.uk have posted a small article about Tim Burton’s exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art a few days ago and it also features a new picture (click on the image below to view it in full size).

“Is there a doctor here?” asks Tim Burton, feeling his wrist for a pulse, “I think I might be dead.”

That wouldn’t be out of character. But as it happens he is very much alive, standing at a podium in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where a 700-work retrospective of the director’s joyously ghoulish career is about to open. Burton, who used to play in cemeteries as a child, is blessed with the kind of hair mad scientists have in horror movies, and he has grown the ghost of a goatee. His appearance in a dark, slouchy suit and blue-tinted sunglasses sets off a riot of camera flashes as he thank the curators for “uh… raiding my closets to find things that almost gave me a heart attack”.

The show includes a full-scale waxwork of Edward Scissorhands, the latex cowls worn by Batman, Ed Wood’s angora sweater, Willy Wonka’s headgear and Sweeney Todd’s razors. But before these iconic cinematic items came into being, the creatures of Burton’s imagination were set down on paper – endlessly and colourfully wrought, the bastard children of Ralph Steadman and Henry Moore. There are doodles on blotters and newspaper pages, sketchbooks, Super-8 films using toys as actors. There’s a sketch of Vincent Price drawn by Burton when he was a teenager, and a school English paper in which a check-up with a doctor is described using words like “eerie” and “evil”, with doors creaking open and a 100-year-old nurse. Visiting MoMA now is like tumbling down a rabbit hole into someone’s weird yet remarkably consistent mind.

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An article posted on Financial Time’s style section discusses how Tim Burton has influenced today’s fashion with his art.

It is a paradox of fashion that the film director Tim Burton, a man who regularly lands on worst-dressed lists along with his partner and muse Helena Bonham Carter; a man often excoriated for his matted hair and onion-peel layers of clothes, is also one of the most aesthetically influential film directors currently working, at least as far as that self-same fashion industry is concerned.

Indeed, says Kate Mulleavy, one half of the Rodarte design team, “I’m hard pressed to think of someone who works creatively and is not inspired by Tim Burton. Even if it’s subconscious.”

As to why, the answer is about to be apparent thanks to a Burton retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art that opens on Sunday. The show features only two films (Tim Burton and Tim Burton and The Lurid Beauty of Monsters), focusing instead on the lesser-seen parts of Burton’s process: the notebooks, including the drawings and paintings that begin the whole fantastical process that becomes his celluloid world, as well as a few new pieces created specifically for the exhibition (a 21ft tall, 8ft wide balloon man with a whole bunch of eyes, for example). Also on view is Burton’s rarely seen adaptation of Hansel and Gretel, and works he made when he was still at school.

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Jamie Campbell Bower has already said it and now his “Twilight” co-star Ashley Greene gives her positive input on whether she thinks Tim Burton would be a good director for “Breaking Dawn” (the fourth and final part of the saga). Both Greene and Burton where interviewed about it yesterday on the MoMa event.

In 2007, Jamie Campbell Bower co-starred in Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” A few years later, after being cast as a vampire in “New Moon,” the young British actor has not forgotten the director who gave him his big break, telling MTV News that Burton would be the ideal man to helm the final “Twilight” installment, “Breaking Dawn.”

What does Burton think about that idea? When we caught up with the director at the opening of a retrospective of his work at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, he was flattered.

“He’s being biased, because I worked with him on ‘Sweeney Todd,’ ” Burton laughed. “But that’s nice to hear. In case potential jobs run out, it’d be nice to know someone.”

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The Art of Tim Burton is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton’s artistry, including film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself. This comprehensive 434 page book is grouped into thirteen chapters that examine common themes in Burton’s work, from his fascination with clowns to his passion for misunderstood monsters, to his delight in the oddities of people. Many of Burton’s friends and collaborators offer their thoughts, insight and anecdotes about Tim Burton’s style and artistic approach to life.
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Some might say it’s too early to have a career retrospective for Tim Burton, which the Museum of Modern Art in NYC will be hosting from November 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010, but I say, “Bring it on!” The more Tim, the better. And naturally, the commercial promoting this must-see exhibition is directed by Burton and scored by his longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.

The exhibition will include Burton’s sketches, films, a book signing, and a special film series called “Tim Burton and the Lurid Beauty of Monsters” “that have influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton, and which reflect the motifs, themes, and sensibilities of his work.”

For more info on the exhibit, go to the official MoMa website. Meanwhile, you can check out the commercial after the jump, or read some previous goodies on Mr. Burton, like this gallery of Tim Burton art, an interview with him at Comic-Con, and the extended trailer for Alice in Wonderland.

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The NST Group has posted a great article about Tim Burton’s exhibition and compares his work with Warhol!

A must-see for Tim Burton fans, an exhibition of 700 drawings, paintings and sculptures by the renowned film director and animator is due to go on display in New York.
Held at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition looks back at Tim Burton’s work ranging from when he was a student to the present.
Curator Ron Magliozzi believes Burton’s work follows in the tradition established by Andy Warhol for mass-produced pop art, but art critics are divided, reports the Independent.
The exhibition, which opens on 22 November and runs until 26 April 2010, will include artwork generated for Tim Burton’s various films along never-before-seen pieces. It will be accompanied by two film exhibitions.
In addition to drawings and paintings, fans can also look forward to seeing storyboards, puppets, costumes and props.
Mr Magliozzi told The Art Newspaper: “Instead of using films to interpret the art, let’s use the art to interpret the films. The art is the most important thing. The films are secondary.”
In other art trips news, a group of sixth form students from Somerset recently travelled to New York to take in some of the Big Apple’s key attractions, from the Guggenheim Museum to Broadway.

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One of the cast from one of Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd”, Jamie Campbell Bower, told Film Crunch when promoting “New Moon” that he’d like Tim Burton to be the director of the fourth installment of “The Twilight Saga”, “Breaking Dawn”.