The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

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

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

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.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.

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.