William Friedkin
NAME: William Friedkin
OCCUPATION: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
BIRTH DATE: August 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH: Chicago, Illinois, US
Early Life
Friedkin attended public schools in Chicago. He enrolled at Senn High School, where he played basketball well enough to consider turning professional. Friedkin was not a serious student and barely received grades good enough to graduate, which he did at the age of 16.
Friedkin began going to movies as a teenager, and has cited Citizen Kane as one of his key influences. Several sources claim that Friedkin saw this motion picture as a teenager, but Friedkin himself says that he did not see the film until 1960, when he was 25 years old.
Career Highlight
He began working in the mail room at WGN-TV immediately after high school. Within two years (at the age of 18), he started his directorial career doing live television shows and documentaries.
In 1965 Friedkin moved to Hollywood and two years later released his first feature film, Good Times starring Sonny and Cher. In 1967 he directed a TV pilot for the ABC network called "The Pickle Brothers".
Sorcerer was shortly followed by the crime-comedy The Brink's Job (1978), based on the real-life Great Brink's Robbery in Boston, Massachusetts, which was also unsuccessful at the box-office. In 1980, he directed the highly controversial gay-themed crime thriller Cruising, starring Al Pacino, which was protested against even during its making and remains the subject of heated debate.
Later, Friedkin directed an episode of the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "Cockroaches".
In June 2010, author William Peter Blatty, promoting his latest novel, revealed that Friedkin had committed to direct the feature film adaptation of his thriller, Dimiter.
In 2011 Friedkin directed Killer Joe, a black comedy written by Tracy Letts, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, and Thomas Haden Church. Killer Joe premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, prior to its North American debut at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. It opened in U.S. theaters in July 2012, to favorable reviews from critics.
Personal Life
William Friedkin has been married four times and now with Sherry Lansing, married on July 6, 1991. He has 2 children from 2 of his other marriages.
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The fact that he can recall these films that he aspired to talk about in a interview shows the slight aspirating and influence Friedkin has to offer the world.
Tim Burton
NAME: Timothy Walter Burton
OCCUPATION: Illustrator, Painter, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
BIRTH DATE: August 25, 1958
EDUCATION: California Institute of Arts
PLACE OF BIRTH: Burbank, California
Early Life
As a child, Burton was engrossed with the classic horror films of Roger Corman—many of which featured quintessential screen villain Vincent Price. Burton also developed a penchant for drawing and enrolled at the California Institute of Arts, where he majored in animation. In 1980, upon his graduation, he began working as an apprentice animator for Walt Disney Studios. Within a year, Burton grew tired with his work at Disney and decided to strike out on his own.
Career Highlight
In 1994, Burton cast Johnny Depp as the title character in Ed Wood—a black-and-white portrait of a middling filmmaker and his all-consuming passion to succeed. In 2001, Burton took on an ambitious remake of the 1968 cult classic Planet of the Apes starring Mark Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter. In 2005, he released a remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and a stop-motion animated feature called The Corpse Bride, which received an Oscar nod for Best Animated Feature Film.
In 2010, they reunited again in Tim Burton's adaptation of Lewis Carrol's Alice In Wonderland, wherein Depp played the role of The Mad Hatter and Carter, the Red Queen. In 2012, Burton worked with Depp on a film adaptation of the cult television series Dark Shadows. Writer Seth Grahame-Smith penned the script for this humorous look at a vampire living among his descendants. Burton also mined his own childhood for the animated film Frankenweenie that same year.
Personal Life
Burton was married to Lena Gieseke, a German-born artist, for two years, whom he left to live with model and actress Lisa Marie; she acted in the films he made during their relationship from 1992 to 2001, most notably in Ed Wood and Mars Attacks!. After leaving her, Burton developed a romantic relationship with English actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Burton and Bonham Carter have two children: a son, Billy Raymond, named after his and Bonham Carter's fathers, born in 2003 and a daughter, Nell, born in 2007. Close friend Johnny Depp is a godfather of both of Burton's children.
Burton tells me in this interview that he put effort into his work by trying to broadcast his affections and memories of what he thought of people into a film or a character or even a short space of music/time.
