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You'll notice his answer isn't "My films require pale skin to achieve my vision."
Nether is it incompatible. You're the one who said he answered it himself, his answer is basically that there's no point in shoehorning diversity for diversity's sake.
His cinematographic aesthetic is well established: people look like dreary, desaturated corpses; on several occasions they literally are corpses, or as close as possible. Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride, Dark Shadows, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, and Edward Scissorhands are all heavily centered around the dead, dying, undead, or reanimated dead. His films that aren't explicitly focused on corpses still typically maintain the same corpse-like mood. It's easier to make pale skinned people look like corpses.
Dude's not racist, just goth. I dunno why recognizing this has to get twisted into "making excuses" for him. Nothing he said in that interview contradicts anything I said.
I'm saying both you and Burton have shit excuses for not casting non-white actors. Calling the representation of non-white actors something to "shoehorn" into a film means both of you consider white skin the default, which is at least ignorant of reality if not racist.
And it's easier to make white people look like corpses? What a weird statement. As if Tim Burton shoots on a sub-indie budget that can't afford makeup and lighting, where worrying about the shade of an actor's skin is even a factor when you have the resources of major film studios to achieve any look a director desires.
Lastly, Burton being "goth" is maybe the funniest reason you've provided so far. My dude, have you ever been to a Goth Night at a club? I guarantee you'll find that's a subculture just as popular with people of color as it is for white folks.