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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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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It's all just some kind of sentimental kind of nostalgic stuff, so in the context of world disasters at the moment, the way people are suffering, it's not any great deal, really.
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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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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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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,
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In light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal.
against directors
This is just ridiculous, to be up against some of the other directors here tonight.
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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.
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I had the idea in a pub in Bristol.
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I wanted to keep my signature in it and not lose that.
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Anyone who does it has to be a bit insane,
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At the end of the week, we have perhaps two minutes done.
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They came to us because they love what we do, and the way we do it,