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.

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

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

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

But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

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

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