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

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.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

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

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

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.

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