The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

You could take everything off me tomorrow, I'll still be happy. So long as my family are living very close together, that's all that matters, really, for me.

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

My grandma was a child of the Depression, and knew the tragedy of having her home outside Diller was destroyed by a tornado.