Fatherhood Quote by Danny DeVito

DeVito is selling Tim Burton without saying the name “Burton” like a brand. The phrase “all the things you love from Tim” treats a director’s style as a reliable product line: magic, whimsy, surreal. That’s not accidental; Burton’s career has been defined as much by an aesthetic signature as by any single plot. DeVito’s intent is reassurance. If you came for the curly-goth visuals, you’ll get them. No bait-and-switch.

Then he pivots to the real pitch: “a fantastic story of a father and son.” This is the subtextual dare. Burton is often caricatured as mood over meaning; DeVito insists there’s an emotional engine underneath the lacquer. The neat trick is how he frames the heart as an additive, not a replacement: you still get the candy, but there’s protein in it.

“Really gets under your skin” is doing heavy lifting. It’s tactile, slightly invasive language, suggesting the film’s feelings aren’t tidy or inspirational; they linger, irritate, haunt. DeVito, a performer associated with broad comedy and outsized characters, is also a savvy reader of audience expectations. He knows the “whimsy” crowd might resist sentimentality, so he doesn’t promise catharsis. He promises discomfort that sticks.

Contextually, it’s also an actor vouching for a director’s range. DeVito positions Burton as more than an aesthetic auteur: someone capable of turning spectacle into intimacy, and using the strange not as escape but as a way to smuggle in something personal about family, damage, and longing.