Burton's most personal film, Big Fish, is a touching reflection on father/son relationships made in the wake of his own father's death. He wryly describes it as "a semi-cheap form of therapy" (although with a $70m budget, probably not that cheap). It's a cathartic realisation of Burton's often difficult relationship with his own dad that follows travelling salesman Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor as a young man; Albert Finney as the older Bloom) through a series of fantastical adventures. "It was always interesting to me to be emotional without being overly schmaltzy," says Burton of it, "otherwise it's just an episode of Days of our Lives." Even tackling themes so close to his heart, Burton's love of the quirky shines through - after all, which other director would make a semi-autobiographic movie involving werewolves, troubled giants and a pair of conjoined twins called Ping and Jing?