‘’It was the first time Tim and the screenwriter Caroline Thompson had an actor cutting out 85 percent of the dialogue. It seemed to me Edward’s vocabulary would be limited but in an innocent way. When Dianne Wiest finds me in the castle and asks me where my father is, the line was written, “he died” and I thought that was too knowing of Edward. So I changed it to “he didn’t wake up”, which opens up a whole purity to the character because death doesn’t exist in his mind’’.














