Snake

A reclusive visionary with obsessive, dark creative precision.

Tim Burton is the archetypal snake — deeply introverted, fiercely meticulous about his singular gothic aesthetic, and famously uncomfortable in the spotlight despite his enormous fame. He has spoken openly about being a socially awkward, isolated child who channeled his inner world into art, and his entire career is defined by an obsessive, idiosyncratic creative vision that he guards jealously. Like the snake, he keeps a low profile personally while producing work with a vicious, quietly subversive wit — think Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and the grotesque poetry of his illustrated book 'The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy.'