As such, it will probably surprise a few cinefiles to learn that the filmmaker does make a very quick appearance in his latest, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.
Tim Burton, however, has never been one of these directors.
Film history is filled with directors who like to occasionally step in front of the camera to make cameos in their own moves – from Alfred Hitchcock to Quentin Tarantino.
Certainly the rarity of the moment makes this a funny little bit of trivia by itself – but what makes the cameo particularly weird and interesting is the fact that Burton did it not because he wanted to, but because he had to.