Nick Park
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English director, writer, and animator best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, and won four with Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 December 1958
dream taken true
Yeah! For me, it's a dream come true just to be taken seriously, in a sense.
brush painting
an Impressionist painting where you can see the brush strokes. It's part of the aesthetic.
college creating fact love nature props tactile turned
I love the tactile nature ... The fact that you're working with real materials. That's what turned me on at college. Making all the props and creating a little world that you can see for real.
elderly
In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple, ... They're inseparable, they live in each other's pockets. There's a kind of love-hate relationship, but they'll always look out for each other at the end of the day.
elderly
In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple,
light today
In light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal.
pub
I had the idea in a pub in Bristol.
against directors
This is just ridiculous, to be up against some of the other directors here tonight.
anyone bit
Anyone who does it has to be a bit insane,
minutes perhaps
At the end of the week, we have perhaps two minutes done.
detail dvd level miss
If you didn't put that level of detail in, you'd actually miss it, ... You'd know it was fudged. The film had to be made so that you try and think of something comical that you'll see on the DVD one day.
deal hold hollywood somebody wants
Any Hollywood studio, if they're doing a deal with somebody else, wants to own characters, but we have managed to keep hold of them.
cab driver
The cab driver must have been a big fan.
lose signature
I wanted to keep my signature in it and not lose that.