For a man whose entire cinematic career has been devoted to portraying maladjusted types who don't fit in, Tim Burton is certainly comfortable holding a microphone in front of a crowd. Then again, that is the deal with artists: turn your oddities and idiosyncrasies into art and watch your childhood rejection alchemically transform into public admiration.
"Corpse Bride," while certainly entertaining, may also be the 47-year-old director's most poetic artwork yet. At the movie's news conference at Roppongi Hills, the director, as always, wore black, and his hair was artfully uncombed.
On casting Johnny Depp: