A lot can happen in two seconds. You learn to appreciate a second of time much more. You can say seven words in a second.
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
Any Hollywood studio, if they're doing a deal with somebody else, wants to own characters, but we have managed to keep hold of them.
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.
I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.
I've always aspired to make a feature, and even in the shorts I think there is a sense that these are frustrated feature films.
If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
It has turned up the heat a bit to now give out an Oscar to a full-length animated feature. I think everyone was more relaxed before.
My father used to make things a lot. He was always in the shed making things. In Grand Day Out, Wallace builds a rocket, and it reminded me of my dad.
Obviously DreamWorks have their eye on the marketing side, but we've been always encouraged by the short films.
We are a small company but we really treasure what we have, so I don't feel we've given anything up. We treated Wallace and Gromit as our crown jewels.
We're very aware of not losing the spirit of the early Wallace and Gromit films.
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.
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