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

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.

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.

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