"I wanted to be an actor. I never wanted to grow up. I never wanted to. I wanted to fly."

"[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…"

"I was also invited to give a couple of informal seminars to the Animation School at the RCA. These were so informal t…"

"The films we made were aimed at the Head of Department at the BBC, who was about 57 at the time, and she was a nice l…"

"Being creative, having to do something new, invent something, alter things, in order to show you're still there is a …"

"All the way through, if you look at my films, you will see that my animation is very economical, but very powerful. B…"

"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…"