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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We were aware that we were going more global this time, but we didn't want to change anything so it kept its individual, British, small-budget feel.
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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.
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When I watched the film yesterday, I found it hard to relax. It was great to hear the reaction of the audience on the one hand, and that was such a relief, but on the other hand I was still trying to make the film, trying to do different edits.
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But I was nervous for a long time. I was a bit cautious because many things haven't worked that go from TV to movies, and I wanted it to be an idea that really grabbed me and demanded to be made because it has to be something you really believe in 100 per cent, otherwise it can't sustain you for that long.
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Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
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It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.
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I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.
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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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We actually provided a clay bunny, and he was scanned into a computer, fingerprints and all, ... And then he was cloned many times so they could show them all floating around inside the glass chamber in slow motion.