Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.

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

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

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

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

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.