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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.