↑ Salisbury, Mark; Tim Burton (2006). “Introduction to the Revised Edition by Mark Salisbury”. Burton on Burton. Faber and Faber (London). tr. XX. ISBN0-571-22926-3. Burton connected to its central theme of a son trying to reconcile with his dying father, and the script gave him a means to address his feelings about the death of his own father, who had died in 2000.
