‘Beetlejuice’ director Tim Burton says he’s disturbed by AI, ‘scary feeling’

Tim Burton is known for scary films like ‘Beetlejuice’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, but what scares him?

According to the filmmaker artificial intelligence.

During a preview of ‘The World of Tim Burton’ exhibition at London’s Design Museum this week, the acclaimed gothic horror and fantasy director said he is not a fan of the technology.

“It wasn’t an intellectual thought, it was just an internal, deep-seated feeling,” he said The Associated Press. “I looked at those things and thought, ‘Some of these are pretty good.’ … (But) it gave me a strange kind of creepy feeling inside.”

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Burton added that he thinks AI is unstoppable because “once you can do it, people will do it.”

Most recently also the director of “Edward Scissorhands”. told the BBC that AI is “something I can’t even fully fathom”, referring to a situation last year when it was used to transform Disney characters in its signature Gothic style.

“I looked at those things and thought, ‘Some of these are pretty good.’ … (But) it gave me a strange kind of creepy feeling inside.”

–Tim Burton

“Until it happens to you, you really don’t understand it. But it was quite disturbing: intellectually and emotionally disturbing. It felt like my soul was being taken away from me,” the 66-year-old helmer said.

He continued, “It’s like other cultures say, ‘Oh, don’t take a picture of me because you’re taking my soul.’ And that’s the way it is. It’s something that robs you of humanity. All I can say is I understand these other cultures when they feel like your soul is being sucked in.”

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The director also admitted that he is not a fan of technology in general.

“Anyone who knows me knows I’m a bit of a technophobe,” he told the BBC.

“When I look at the internet, I notice that I became quite depressed,” he continued. “It scared me because I started falling into a dark hole. So I try to avoid it because it doesn’t make me feel good.”

Burton isn’t the only one afraid of AI.

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His “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” star Justin Theroux told Fox News Digital earlier this year that he doesn’t think AI can reproduce the genius of directors like Burton.

“I think when people see this movie they will understand that I don’t think there will ever be a Tim Burton movie that could have been made by AI,” Theroux explains. “He is so unique in his vision.”

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However, Theroux thinks AI will be incorporated into filmmaking in the future.

“I think in the future there will be AI movies, or movies that might be written by AI to some extent,” he added.

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“But I think at this point, if you have a real… if you compare it to a Tim Burton movie, it’s very difficult to duplicate what comes out of that man’s head.”

Other stars who have spoken out recently include Nicolas Cage, who warned actors that AI wants to “take your instrument.”

“This technology wants to take over your instrument. We are the instruments as movie actors. We don’t hide behind guitars and drums,” Cage said last month at the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival.

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He continued: “The studios want this so they can change your face after you’ve already recorded it – they can change your face, they can change your voice, they can change your line deliveries, they can change your body language, they can change your performance change.”