Horror is good for children

Tim Burton feels sorry new generations of parents, trapped in political correctness, don't tell gothic tales to their children.

The maverick filmmaker adds that children need to feel frightened – sometimes. In an interview with WENN, Tim Burton declared:

«I don't know why adults keep fighting that. They keep fighting the fairy tales that have been told since the beginning of mankind. They're fighting Pinocchio. They forget what it's like to be kids. Kids like to be scared. Most great children's literature is politically incorrect.»

Tim Burton also makes it clear that this mentality doesn't aid his filmmaking process: «When I was first doing stuff like »Beetlejuice« or »Batman« I used to get a lot of st for things being dark... When I was working on »Nightmare Before Christmas« I had endless arguments with the studio heads who said, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs. How is someone gonna feel about somebody with just eye sockets?' It's those kinds of things that really kind of wear you down.»