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But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.

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B次元官网网址淚t wasnB次元官网网址檛 an intellectual thought B次元官网网址� it was just an internal, visceral feeling,B次元官网网址� Burton told reporters during a preview of B次元官网网址淭he World of Tim BurtonB次元官网网址� exhibition at LondonB次元官网网址檚 Design Museum. B次元官网网址淚 looked at those things and I thought, B次元官网网址楽ome of these are pretty good.B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址� (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside.B次元官网网址�

Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because B次元官网网址渙nce you can do it, people will do it.B次元官网网址� But he scoffed when asked if heB次元官网网址檇 use the technology in this work.

B次元官网网址淭o take over the world?B次元官网网址� he laughed.

The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.

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Decades later, after films including B次元官网网址淓dward Scissorhands,B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址淏atman,B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址淭he Nightmare Before ChristmasB次元官网网址� and B次元官网网址淏eetlejuice,B次元官网网址� his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and BurtonB次元官网网址檚 personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.

London is the exhibitionB次元官网网址檚 final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in the British capital, where Burton has lived for a quarter century.

The show includes early drawings and oddities, including a competition-winning B次元官网网址渃rush litterB次元官网网址� sign a teenage Burton designed for Burbank garbage trucks. ThereB次元官网网址檚 also a recreation of BurtonB次元官网网址檚 studio, down to the trays of paints and B次元官网网址淐urse of FrankensteinB次元官网网址� mug full of pencils.

Alongside hundreds of drawings, there are props, puppets, set designs and iconic costumes, including Johnny DeppB次元官网网址檚 B次元官网网址淓dward ScissorhandsB次元官网网址� talons and the black latex Catwoman costume worn by Michelle Pfeiffer in B次元官网网址淏atman Returns.B次元官网网址�

B次元官网网址淲e had very generous access to TimB次元官网网址檚 archive in London, stuffed full of thousands of drawings, storyboards from stop-motion films, sketches, character notes, poems,B次元官网网址� said exhibition curator Maria McLintock. B次元官网网址淎nd how to synthesize such a wide ranging and meandering career within one exhibition was a fun challenge B次元官网网址� but definitely a challenge.B次元官网网址�

Seeing it has not been a wholly fun experience for Burton, who said heB次元官网网址檚 unable to look too closely at the items on display.

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Burton, whose long-awaited horror-comedy sequel opened at the Venice Film Festival in August, is currently filming the second series of NetflixB次元官网网址� Addams Family-themed series B次元官网网址淲ednesday.B次元官网网址�

These days he is a major Hollywood director whose American gothic style has spawned an adjective B次元官网网址� B次元官网网址淏urtoneqsue.B次元官网网址� But he still feels like an outsider.

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B次元官网网址淓ach film I did was a struggle,B次元官网网址� he added, noting that early films like B次元官网网址淧ee-weeB次元官网网址檚 Big AdventureB次元官网网址� from 1985 and B次元官网网址淏eetlejuiceB次元官网网址� in 1988 received some negative reviews. B次元官网网址淚t seems like it was a pleasant, fine, easy journey, but each one leaves its emotional scars.B次元官网网址�

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