"I wanted one thing – to show the fantastic world created by nature over millions of years. Film offered me that chance."

"With the vast sweep of his imagination Jules Verne created a whole world of magical things imbued with a delightful n…"

"Why do I make movies? I'm looking for terra incognita, a land on which no filmmaker has yet set foot, a planet where …"

"For an artist there is no more serious and, at the same time, more joyous task than to create, through art, a new aes…"

"I'm on a journey to discover the beauty of the fairy tale and I want to stay on that path, trying to find better ways…"

"Yeah, that story’s not finished. We have more things written already and figured out for it to finish, but somebody’s…"

"The kids’ business of animation is pretty much gone at this point, but adult animation has been steadily rising for t…"

"When my career dies, and I can’t sell a project or do anything else, that’s when [Dexter’s Laboratory] will return 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…"