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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.