Lasse Hallstrom: I respect his choices really. He's obviously going for the outcasts, and I have a lot of empathy for the outcasts in life.

Narrator: There's no better example of Depp's affinity for outsiders than his role in Tim Burton's freakish fairy tale "Edward Scissorhands."



Johnny: Everybody in Hollywood wanted that part. Everybody.



Johnny: I wasn't going to go to the meeting (with Tim Burton), in fact, because I just thought there was no hope. I thought "There's no way. This guy is going to see me as some sort of just TV actor. He's not going to cast me. Why go embarrass myself by meeting him."





Tim Burton: After meeting him, I realized, you know, it kind of fit the role because he was perceived as a sort of teen heart throb from the TV show when in fact, inside of himself he really didn't, you know, he was a different person. He's much deeper. He was a real contradiction from the image of what he was perceived at to what he really was inside, and, you know, that was very much what the role of Edward Scissorhands was.



Tim: I learned from "Edward Scissorhands" he is a silent movie actor. He understands that a lot of the acting is not in the words.



Dianne Wiest: It's a very wise thing for Tim to say about Johnny because it is very true. But, you know, often times, as in the silent screen, when you have to open your mouth, the truth comes out and when Johnny opens his mouth, the truth gets deeper.

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