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

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

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

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

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

With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

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.