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
inches move
You need to find things like having your actors move 2 inches in a day pretty exciting.
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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.
animal league movement
I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.
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.
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.
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.
came love
They came to us because they love what we do, and the way we do it,