Look, I CERTAINLY couldn't say that my unusual upbringing didn't lend itself to becoming an ACTOR - of course it did. People WANT to see what Edward and Joanna's SON can do.

The Turkish Embassy in WASHINGTON is an ornate, eclectic BUILDING on the corner of Twenty-third STREET and MASSACHUSETTS Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the MAN who put the crimp in bottle caps.

To some, incredibly, Russia has BECOME a HUMAN RIGHTS leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in Russia, and White House spokesman Jay Carney appears flummoxed and wrong-footed as the mantle of free SPEECH and liberty appears to pass from West to East.

My journalistic HEROES are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, AMONG OTHERS, because they were TOUGH.

My JOB is to be SKEPTICAL: skeptical of PEOPLE LIKE Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. GOVERNMENT.

I WORKED for CBS NEWS in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually BROUGHT coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

I love traditional shoes. I have a NICE COUPLE of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a PAIR of Edward GREEN shoes, and I aspire to a pair of hand-made George Cleverley shoes. MARK McNairy, all those are amazing.

When I heard Edward Snowden's STORY, it reminded me of my MOTHER in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that TIME, the Resistance were CONSIDERED troublemakers - even traitors - in France.

Alan Moore's FIRST CHOICE to be the COMEDIAN... was Burt Reynolds. But I NEVER saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

The only PEOPLE in my WHOLE life that have ever called me Edward are the POLICE because it's on my LICENSE.

I always REFERENCE 'Mad Max' when I THINK about what I want to wear. But it's a FINE line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

Everybody READING the same book at the same time pulls PEOPLE together. It does start a conversation. If you're GOING to read 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,' you're going to talk about HEARTBREAK and LOSS and all of those things that people don't talk about as a community.

When I was 14, 15, 16, I was wearing 'Edward Scissorhands' and 'Nightmare before CHRISTMAS' STUFF. I SAW 'Sleepy Hollow' a dozen times.

I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen 'Edward Scissorhands' ENOUGH times to know it by heart. That's EXCITING: to work on something you FEEL like you REALLY GET.