Tim Burton Clashed With One Iconic Actor During His Most Important Movie

The original source for the clash between Tim Burton and Jack Palance is Burton himself. On his original commentary for the 1989 Batman, Burton recounted an incident where Palance didn’t hear the director say “Action.” When this happened, Burton yelled “cut” and tried to have a sidebar conversation with the legendary actor.To hear Tim Burton recount the story, Jack Palance didn’t react very well to the entire incident. Allegedly, the actor had a single, pointed question for the young director: “I’ve made over a hundred films, how many have you made?” Burton didn’t really have much of a comeback to this barb because Palance was quite right about the director’s relative inexperience.