Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.