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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.