Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton (Foreword by Tim Burton)

A film journalist since 1991, Tim Lammers has interviewed more than one thousand major actors, including Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, Denzel Washington, Natalie Portman, Helen Mirren, Jodie Foster, Julie Andrews, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Jackman, and Harrison Ford. He has also interviewed acclaimed filmmakers, including as Francis Ford Coppola, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Baz Luhrmann, Ridley Scott, Rob Reiner and the late Sydney Pollack.

Tim is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and annually votes on the Critics Choice Movie Awards. He reviews films weekly on KARE-TV (NBC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as select radio outlets in the Midwest. Tim is also a syndicated entertainment writer whose work is distributed to dozens of websites across the U.S. by the Internet Broadcasting network. Most recently his work has appeared on such sites as Esquire.com and FEARnet.com.