Speaking to Sky News, he paid tribute to the "loveable little rogue".
"He was loveable, a very happy little boy, very cheerful.
The inventive and loveable mouse-like creatures, who live on a small blue planet lying "across the vast endless stretches of outer space" from Earth, communicate with distinctive whistles while the narrator comments on the events that take place in their world.
Or don't cope.Woody, a loveable 50-year-old professor of classics at a small university in the mid-west, confidently believed "that life had already taught him the lessons he needed to learn".
I believe a lot of architects invent the names at the time of design because an association with a smaller, familiar object makes it instantly cuddly and loveable.
The short film follows deluded, hopeless – but strangely loveable – aspiring grime MC Roll Safe as he guides the viewer through "the hood", AKA a small area of south London.
"His work is very loveable.
Google is the loveable monopolist.
They were laughable, loveable losers.
