Don’t expect Tim Burton to post on Instagram.
The provocative filmmaker has shared that anyone who knows him knows he’s a “bit of a technophobe.”
“I look at the internet and I’ve seen myself getting quite depressed,” Burton recently told BBC News. “It scared me because I’ve gone into a dark place. So I try to avoid it because it doesn’t make me feel good.”
The 66-year-old director spoke to the outlet ahead of The World of Tim Burton at the Design Museum, a new career retrospective in the U.K. that explores his creative process.
The man best known for directing hits like “Beetlejuice,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Edward Scissorhands” said that the internet definitely has a negative effect on him.
“I get depressed really quickly, maybe faster than other people,” Burton said. “But it doesn’t take much for me to click and short-circuit.”
Being productive and looking at clouds makes him happier, he said, and he’s been busy with projects like “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and directing episodes of the Netflix series “Wednesday.”
“The journey to Hollywood is kind of an Alice in Wonderland journey,” Burton said. “You go up, you go down, you go sideways. That’s the way it is.”