You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.