I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to preserve life? What does it say when the artificial and real animal can have the same attraction to people?

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

I don't set out to make something that is repulsive and that would scare people. I know that some people don't like what I make, and don't find it cute, but that's hard for me to understand.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.