(Lyon) “I am very optimistic for cinema, an art that connects people more than others,” said director Tim Burton, honored for his career at the Lumière Festival in Lyon.
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“A few years ago, in Hollywood, there was only one approach, everything was done for streaming, Netflix and television,” the director of the film said on Saturday. Mars Attacks Where Edward Scissorhands at a press conference, the day after the Lumière Prize was awarded.
But after the pandemic, “I realized that cinema still remained important, that it would always be there, that it was an art form that transcended everything,” he added.
Tim Burton, whose last film dates back to 2019 (Dumbo) and whose universe will be adapted in November in the eight-episode Netflix series, “Wednesday”, promised that he was not done with the cinema: “I want to be sure that the next film that I will make will really make sense to me.”
The director considers that today Netflix “is a studio like any other”, and that the Hollywood industry always leaves room for different voices, “which can go under the radar, even if it’s a fight”.
On the other hand, he says that he understood at the time of Dumbo “to have probably finished” with Disney, the studio where he started: “I realized that I was like Dumboworking in a big circus that I needed to escape from”.
In 35 years of career, Tim Burton has made a place for himself in Hollywood cinema, with his visual universe that is both tender and dark, Batman at beetle juice Passing by Big Fishand sleepy hollow.
The Lumière Prize was created in 2009 by the Lumière Institute. Tim Burton succeeds New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion in 2021, the Dardenne brothers in 2020 and his compatriot Francis Ford Coppola in 2019.
Receiving such an honor “is like attending his funeral! “joked Lyon Tim Burton. A compliment from the mouth of the most gothic of directors.