Tim Burton reveals he considered retiring after directing Michael Keaton movie Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Valeria Garcia For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:01, 22 August 2024 | Updated: 22:28, 22 August 2024 e-mail View comments Tim Burton has revealed that there was a movie that made him want to retire from directing.
During an interview with Variety , the 65-year-old admitted that he considered calling it quits after directing the film Dumbo in 2019. 'Honestly, after Dumbo, I really didn’t know,' he said of the film that starred Michael Keaton , Danny DeVito and Colin Farrell . 'I thought that could have been it, really.
I could have retired, or become...
well, I wouldn’t have become an animator again, that’s over.' The Burbank, California native explained that COVID created a period of 'flux' professionally. But things changed for the better when working on Wednesday (2022) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) gave his creativity the rebirth it needed.
Tim Burton admitted that he considered retiring after directing Dumbo in 2019; seen on August 14 in Mexico He explained, 'This did reenergize me. Oftentimes, when you get into Hollywood, you try to be responsible to what you’re doing with the budget and everything else but sometimes you might lose yourself a little bit. 'This reinforced the feeling for me that it’s important that I do what I want to do, because then everybody will benefit,' he said.
Over the years Burton has worked on major dark t.