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.

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.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

I'm the worst in The Office. It's a problem. They've had to shut down the set for like 30 minutes because of me.

The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle.

Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.