I Brought In The Stories Many Times.

You Could Believe That Sinbad Could Fight A Skeleton Because That's From A Period In The Past, A Magical Period. But If You Had James Bond Fighting A Skeleton, It'd Be Almost Comical.

There’s A Strange Quality In Stop-motion Photography, Like In King Kong, That Adds To The Fantasy. If You Make Things Too Real, Sometimes You Bring It Down To The Mundane.

That's Why I Never Became A Director. I Never Had Patience With People.

Many People Are Under The Delusion That I'm Just A Special-effects Man, But I've Worn Many Different Hats In My Day. On Every Film I've Been Involved In, I Worked With The Writer And Producer. We Really Formulated Those Scripts. We Tried To Make Films That Were Logical But Still Had The Fantasy Feel Of It. I Enjoy Aardman Animation's Films With Wallace And Gromit, But They're Obvious Puppet Films, Whereas We Tried To Disguise It And Make Our Effects Characters In The Films Rather Than Obvious Puppets.

When You Put A Big Budget Into A Film, It Doesn't Necessarily Mean It Will Be A Better Picture, But It Does Help In Creating New Images On The Screen.