I think back on it . . . Burton often slips into these half sentences and allows his words to stray off like that. His thoughts seem to come racing to his tongue, tripping over each other before they can get out. Yet for some strange reason, it's always clear what he's trying to say. The social misfit aspect of the Edward Scissorhands character has appeared in Burton's work before.
Price narrates the cartoon, which won two awards at the Chicago Film Festival.
The images in Vincent were drawn directly from Burton's own middle-class childhood in Burbank, where his father recently retired from the parks and recreation department and his mother runs a small gift shop. This sounds dramatic but he helped me live . . . Some people find release through heavy metal or whatever. You're not just watching a low-budget Edgar Allan Poe movie, there's something else there that's not on the screen. I channeled my melodrama into that, as opposed to suicide probably.