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

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.

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

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.

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.

Arranged Conversation and Pre-Planned Emotions never Works in real life, and Always Comes with Bad Ending .

But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like.

Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."

The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.