"Animation wasn't so much an imitation of life - it was a punctuation of conversation. We always stayed on the one who…"

"What matters most is the story, and it should never be sacrificed to the method. These days immense quantities of mon…"

"Come to think of it I must have produced some of the clumsiest animation ever to disgrace the television screen, but …"

"Their [politicians] words and phrases are skillfully chosen to keep us complacent and confident in our fairly comfort…"

"That voice of his was loved by the nation. I mean, if I could've been Oliver Postgate, with that voice, and with his …"

"And they [Smallfilms] had a superb ear for creating sound effects that children could easily mimic the moment the pro…"

"And all of these things, the selection of just the right characters, just the right soundtrack, and just the right to…"

"[Responding to the perceived surrealism of Clangers] They're surreal but logical. I have a strong prejudice against f…"

"We would go to the BBC once a year, show them the films we'd made, and they would say, "Yes, lovely, now what are you…"

"That was all, but I was fizzing with excitement. It didn't matter what the picture was of. It didn't matter that Mast…"