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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.