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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

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.

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.

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

Even if that is the truth, ” Derkein said, “what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?

Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

However much we do to avoid them we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.