We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

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.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

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.