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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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