I had the idea for this [The Curse of the Were-Rabbit] before Chicken Run,

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

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.

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

It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.

We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And then he was cloned many times so they could show them all floating around inside the glass chamber in slow motion.