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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.