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
home thinking ideas
I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.
couple thinking two
But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.
thinking sides sensible
I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.
real thinking light
With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.
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.
college creating fact love nature props tactile turned
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.
pub
I had the idea in a pub in Bristol.
lose signature
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,