I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

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