Part of a director’s job is picking out the actors. Tim Burton has a few favorite actors that he works with fairly consistently. One of these actors is Winona Ryder. She plays the daughter of the new owners of the main character’s house in Beetlejuice. She also plays as the daughter of the family that takes in Edward Scissorhands and the eventual love interest of Edward Scissorhands. Another actor that Tim Burton favors is Johnny Depp. He played in Edward Scissorhands as Edward. He also played a role in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows as Barnabas Collins and he played as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. As a director, Tim Burton has to pick actors that he believes will fill the role perfectly. He has found two actors that he has dubbed as being good actors and so he often puts them into his movies. Of course, even if he has favorite actors, if he believes they aren’t a good fit for a role, it is his duty to replace them with another actor that …show more content…
A director must be a mixture of everything: he has to be a thinker to plan things out ahead of time, he must be an artist to creatively construct the movie, and he must be a leader, strong willed and focused with a clear idea of the end goal. The director is the one that calls the shots and makes all the decisions. He picks the actors, he then leads the actors through the movie, telling them how to act even, and he also has to think about the actor and his or hers limitations. Being a director is incredibly tough and rigorous, but even so, many people manage to pull it off and create movies following exactly what they