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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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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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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We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
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There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
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After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.
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Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.
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We chatted about different movies we loved, the aspects of characters,
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The word 'soon' is probably not applicable here, though. You may have to wait a few years.
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We didn't know each other were going to wear these ties. It's a bit of an embarrassment.
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We're both absolutely delighted. We're over the moon.
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With the success of three half-hour shows behind us, it seemed a natural step to go for a feature film,
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We could have done the Were-Rabbit in CGI. But we chose not to because I find with traditional (stop-motion) techniques and clay there is a certain magic that happens whenever the frame is hand-manipulated. I just love clay; it's an expression.
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You have to kind of let it go,