If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.

The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.