He did not name a favorite Director, as such. He clearly formed a good working rapport with Wolfgang Petersen for NES Barret publicly expressed his willingness to work with him again, and it is clear from both behind-the-scenes shots and the end product that the two co-operated convincingly. Barret is also on record as saying that he got on well at the personal level with Tim Burton during the making of Frankenweenie, and that he was grateful to Ron Howard, who, as a former child-star himself, gave him sympathetic support on the Cocoon set.
Strangely, but perhaps not significantly, there is no explicit reference at all to the relationship between Simon Wincer and Barret in DARYL. More.
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