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

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.

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.

Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.

Iko held up a hand. "You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

There's nothing special about your fear.

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

Every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.