“If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed. It scared me because I started to go down a dark hole. So I try to avoid it because it doesn’t make me feel good,” Burton explained. “I get depressed very quickly, maybe more quickly than other people. But it doesn’t take me much to start to click and start to short circuit.”

He admits to being easily depressed, perhaps more so than most, which is why he needs to avoid all things that make him feel badly, like the internet. Burton notes that just keeping busy with work and hobbies such as cloud-watching can help him avoid feeling down.

Tim Burton, the iconic director behind Batman, Beetlejuice, and Wednesday, revealed that he avoids the internet because it makes him feel depressed. Speaking to BBC News ahead of the opening of his career retrospective exhibition in London,

The director was speaking to BBC News ahead of a new career retrospective opening in London.

Don’t look for Tim Burton to be posting on Instagram. The provocative filmmaker has shared that anyone who knows him knows he’s a “bit of a technophobe.” “If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed,

The filmmaker shared that he easily gets pulled into "a dark hole." Tim Burton Avoids the Internet Because It Makes Him “Depressed,” Looks at Clouds Instead Eddie Fu

Director Tim Burton famously likes things a little scary, but I guess everyone has their limits. Burton’s personal nightmare? Existing online, apparently. “If I look at the internet, I found that I got quite depressed,