Nick Park quotes

Nick Park is a British director and animator, known for creating the beloved Wallace and Gromit series. His innovative use of stop-motion animation has won him worldwide recognition and multiple Academy Awards. He continues to inspire audiences with his imaginative characters and charming storytelling. Here are 18 of his quotes:

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable. (Nick Park)
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm. View quote
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The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. View quote
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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.' View quote
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I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected. View quote
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Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things. View quote
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We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. View quote
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Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs. View quote
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I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas. (Nick Park)
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. View quote
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My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. View quote
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Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things. View quote
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When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living. View quote
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I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nick Park

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Photo: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: British Director
Born: December 6, 1958
Quotes count: 18