I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.