- Born
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- Birth nameAnthony Francis Furst
- After his work on Batman, production designer Anton Furst tried in vain to find some directing work. Contractual obligations kept him from being able to do the work he did on Batman in the sequel. He committed suicide in 1991.- IMDb Mini Biography By: John Ferrer, aceduke@hotmail.com
- Furst's collaborators remember him as a driven, impulsive and passionate man who made spontaneous decisions.
- His suicide came shortly after breaking up with actress Beverly D'Angelo.
- Designed 'Planet Hollywood', the $15 million Manhattan restaurant co-owned by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone.
- He had a prominent nose, that he enjoyed poking fun at; sometimes instead of signing his name, he'd draw a little picture of himself that looked like a bird of prey.
- Towards the end of November 1990, Furst had announced his intention to kick drugs and drink.
- [on being a production designer] This is ideal for me because I draw well and I can visualize. There's no other area I would prefer to be working in.
- I like films that use cinema as the way of fundamentally expressing the points they're trying to make, rather than then expressing a literary piece on film.
- Tim Burton is firm in his opinion that film must have its own reality. The more you explain the more you have to explain. If you start explaining you have to explain loads and that gets off the event you're actually reconstructing. Look at a Disney cartoon. Everybody buys that Donald Duck was steamrolled flat.
- I develop a context for the film which will be spiritually or tonally correct. I don't agree with the idea of trying to reconstruct a reference shot of something from some period. I believe in looking at the film and then thinking in the abstract. And then constructing your own reality to support that general abstract idea of the whole piece.
- The Batmobile was more like a knight in armor, an extension, an expression of Batman's costume-an intimidating, furious war machine.
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