. ♪ >> comedy in the '80s, my favorite niche subject is tim burton. ♪ >> i was never scared by any horroring my relatives. >> i love tim burton because he's the best thing you can be as a director. he's completely unique. you start noticing the black and white stripes on things and just the vibe and you're, like, we've got something here with this guy. >> we did "beetlejuice" and his basic idea was that the living people would be scary and the dead people would be the kind of banal. >> i was very lucky early on in my career to work with people that had come from comedy, that were good at improving. someone like michael. there's a whole different energy when people are there and there may be some written things and it goes off and you start riffing and getting into it. he was great at that. he's like a pressure cooker. >> "beetlejuice" is underrated. as well regarded as it is, it's still underrated, because it shouldn't work. i don't know if it's a horror movie set in a comedy or a comedy that's a horror movie. i can't figure out the algorithm behind it, but it works. ♪ six foot, seven foo