Tim Burton's long career has taken him some place.
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Dumbo was a traumatic sort of experience for Tim Burton . The director is still beloved by fans all over the world. Successes with Wednesday and the fervor around Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice help prove that he still got some goodwill out there. But the experience on Dumbo helped Burton see that his home at Disney might not have been compatible with his vision anymore.
"My history is that I started out there. I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there," he illustrated in an interview from 2022 . "The thing about Dumbo is that's why I think my days with Disney are done: I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this horrible big circus, and I needed to escape."
In recent years, that desire for originality and autonomy over his work has become more pressing for him. The creator previously responded to a BuzzFeed article that rendered Disney princesses in his signature style in an interview with The Independent . Needless to say, Burton was horrified at the very prospect of something like that. "I can't describe the feeling it gives you," Burton would begin. "It reminded me of when other cultures say, 'Don't take my picture because it is taking away your soul.' What it does is it sucks something from you. It takes something from your soul or psyche; that is very disturbing, especially if it has to do with you. It's like a robot taking your humanity, your soul."
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