How closely do you identify with your protagonists? Does Victor Frankenstein have a lot in common with young Tim Burton?
Yeah, I had a dog and I wanted to be a mad scientist. I was put, like a lot of kids are, into this “weird” category. I didn’t really feel weird at all. I always felt the other kids were strange, so I tried to reflect that in the film, the weirdness of other children, the slightly bullying way children are with each other.

Tim Burton on Frankenweenie

Joaquin Phoenix and Liv Tyler, in “Inventing the Abbotts” 1997.

“Mermaids” premiere, 1990.

Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder at the “Mermaids” premiere. December 10, 1990.

8 out of 100  photos of Winona Ryder