"There were aspects of the character and this thing with Bela Lugosi that I immediately responded to. Whats great about Ed Wood is that it's rough, it's not like a completely hardcore realistic biopic. In doing a biopic you can't help but get inside the person's spirit a little bit, so for me, some of the film is trying to be through Ed a little bit. So it's got an overly optimistic quality to it. I grew up loving Plan 9, which is a movie you see when you're a kid and it remains with you. And then, later on, Wood gets acknowledged as the worst director in the world, and then starts to get a little bit more known, and then there are festivals, and they show his movies and everybody laughs at them. But the thing is, when you watch his movies, yeah, they are bad, but they're special. There's some reason why these movies remain there, and are acknowledged, beyond the fact that they're purely bad. There's a certain consistency to them, and a certain kind of weird artistry. I mean, they are unlike any other thing. He didn't let technicalities like visible wires and bad sets distract him from his story-telling. There's a twisted form of integrity to that."
-Tim Burton, Burton on Burton |
