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Excerpts from Burton on Burton-
The idea actually came from a drawing I did a long time ago. It was just an image that I liked. It came subconsciously and was linked to a character who wants to touch but can't, who was both creative and destructive.
I remember growing up and feeling there is not a lot of room for acceptance. You are taught at a very early age to conform to certain things. It's a situation, at least in America, that's very prevalent and which starts from day one at school: this person' smart, this person's not smart, this person's good at sports, this one's not, this person's weird, this one's normal. From day one your categorized. That was the strongest impulse in the film.
