"I wanted to play the man in the Godzilla costume"

Mrs.Lovett’s song, “Wait,” was originally cut from the movie, because John Logan, the screenwriter, saw it as more of a slow placeholder song. Tim immediately vetoed this decision and reinstated the song, claiming that “it is the only time in the show that Mrs.Lovett gets to express in a gentle sort of way her affection for Sweeney Todd.”

Tim Burton often foregoes historical accuracy in order to emphasize the more emotional aspects of his movies. However, he does recall getting frustrated when journalists pointed out that his movie Big Fish included Chinese lettering during scenes that were meant to portray the Korean War. 

In high school, Tim Burton was once asked to submit a written report on Harry Houdini. Instead, he made a short film with his 8mm camera. He received a B+.

Tim Burton, when asked to describe his film Beetlejuice

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas used 19 sound stages, had over 300 sets, 200 puppets and required 8 camera crews.

‘Miss Peregrine’ and Tim Burton: The Making of a Film Fable

Tim Burton used to have blond hair as a child. He blames it on the combination of swimming in chlorinated pools (on the swim team) and being out in the California sun.

As a child, Tim Burton would rip the heads off of G.I. Joe action figures and convince the other neighborhood kids that aliens had landed.

Prior to auditioning for his role of the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Christopher Walken was asked if he could ride a horse, to which he lied and said yes. Only after getting the part did he learn how to ride, and even then, some scenes were filmed on a mechanical horse.

Tim Burton is very fond of the hotel chain the Ritz Carlton, particularly the one in Paris. Helena once referred to this in an interview, calling it “an expensive sleeping pill,” since it’s one of the only places Tim actually sleeps well at due to his insomnia.

Because the location scouts couldn’t find any existing period houses for Sleepy Hollow, the entire set of the town was built from scratch. Instead of filming in upstate New York like they had originally planned, the production crew settled on building the town of Sleepy Hollow from the ground up in England instead. The town was constructed around a small duck-pond, and each building uniquely fit Tim Burton’s desired aesthetic of a Hammer horror film meeting “colonial-expressionism.”

Tim Burton’s mother owned and ran a cat-themed gift shop. Tim has mentioned how that, along with the other bizarre suburban decor and art culture influenced him greatly as a child, and attributed to the dissociation he felt with society.

In Edward Scissorhands, there’s a shot of a supposed prom picture with Kim and Jim. Jim is wearing a bright teal suit, and in the audio commentary, Tim Burton admits to having a very similar suit.