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

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

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

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

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.

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.

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

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

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.

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.'

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

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

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

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.

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

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.

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.

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

The best films come about through experimentation.

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

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

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.

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.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Larger Post Panamax ships are critical to securing America's position in a global market, and all our ports, including Jaxport, must be deep enough to handle them.

I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

Cant take a chance that one day in one spot somewhere an exit might appear. We cant give up. Ever.

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

Theres always something exciting about small change.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Democracy fascinates me.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a 50 percent chance of being right.

When your mom placed you in my arms after your birth, little did I know that she was placing you directly in my heart.

My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.