“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.”

Tim Burton is chronically not online. Speaking to the BBC ahead of the The World of Tim Burton exhibit opening at the Design Museum in London, the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” filmmaker admitted that he gets depressed when he going on the internet and would rather spend his time looking at clouds instead.

The 66-year-old director talked to the outlet ahead of The World of Tim Burton at the Design Museum, a new career retrospective in the UK that explores his creative process.

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,

Director Tim Burton has revealed that being on the internet makes him feel "quite depressed". Ahead of the opening of a major career retrospective in London, he told BBC News: "Anybody who knows me knows I'm a bit of a technophobe.

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