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

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.

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.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

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

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.