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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It's a real kind of love without being all sloppy and sentimental, which I think people can kind of relate to as the more truer family thing. There's a long-suffering-ness about it.
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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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Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.
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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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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 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,
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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.