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
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As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.
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There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.
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I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.
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When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.
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My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.
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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.
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You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.
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There was great news that it had risen to number one but at the same time the awful news that all the history, all the archives, sets and models had been lost in the fire.
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an Impressionist painting where you can see the brush strokes. It's part of the aesthetic.
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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.
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The cab driver must have been a big fan.
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It can only be a good thing from my point of view. With all the kind of movement toward computer animation and as great as many of those films are, there's more people who have been employed in stop-motion animation in the last year than ever before.
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I think it's because Lady Tottington and Victor are aristocrats,
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I think they certainly will be after this weekend.