Tim Burton was always obsessed with monsters

Filmmaker Tim Burton says he was fascinated with monsters since childhood.
The "Mrs. Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" filmmaker said he has always been drawn to the scary creatures and was never afraid of them, reported Female First.
"My parents used to say that I watched monster movies before I could walk or talk. I was always drawn to them and I never found them scary," Burton said.
The 58-year-old filmmaker said he always had empathy with monsters.
"I always felt an empathy with monsters. In those early films, the monsters were the most emotive characters. The people were the scariest ones With monsters it was often a case of, 'Let's try and kill this thing that we don't understand.'" he said.