It’s like a robot taking your humanity, your soul.” It takes something from your soul or psyche that is very disturbing, especially if it has to do with you. “What it does is it sucks something from you. But that didn’t mean he enjoyed the experience of seeing his own artistry cloned and imitated. Burton acknowledges that some of them were “very good”. They included a Sleeping Beauty with a pale white face and long blonde tresses who is dressed in black and has stitches in her cheeks a Pocahontas running through a Sleepy Hollow-like haunted forest and a Snow White with jet black hair and ghoulishly big eyes. The AI-generated examples were created by Buzzfeed for an online feature. It reminded me of when other cultures say, ‘Don’t take my picture because it is taking away your soul.’” “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you. “They had AI do my versions of Disney characters!” the director exclaims in mock horror. It’s almost as if it’s coming after him personally. He’s acutely conscious of the way that artificial intelligence poses perhaps a greater threat to animation than any other art form. “With the Moma thing, people went to a museum who never went to a museum, especially kids.” He hopes that many of the young visitors to the event in Turin will be inspired to draw, just as he still does every day.
He’s all for exhibitions of his work like the ones at Moma and in Turin. He has just had to down tools on his new movie, Beetlejuice 2, because of the Hollywood actors’ strike – a frustration given that he was less than two days away from completing shooting on the long-awaited film (which brings back Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder from the 1988 classic horror comedy). He is dressed in black, his hair sticks upward (“A comb with legs would have outrun Jesse Owens, given one look at this guy’s locks,” Johnny Depp remarked after first meeting him), and he could still pass for an extra on a Universal horror film from the Thirties. Talking to me by Zoom from what appears to be a small, dark room in his London home, he cuts a reassuringly gothic figure. He’s also polite, friendly, and as eccentric as one might hope. He accentuates his remarks with extravagant, octopus-like rotations of his very long arms. The genius behind Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride and the Netflix hit Wednesday has an unusual approach to speaking to the press.
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