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Portrait of Nick Park

Nick Park

(1958) Film Director

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Nick Park is a film director, best known for Wallace and Gromit (Wallace & Gromit).

Quick Facts About Nick Park

Born: December 6, 1958
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Wallace and Gromit (Wallace & Gromit)

About Nick Park

Nicholas Wulstan Park is an English filmmaker and animator who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, and Early Man. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Nick Park

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and…

Accents

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I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team,…

Again

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There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Draining

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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…

Animation

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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…

Bigger

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The best films come about through experimentation.

About

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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,…

Animal

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There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Australian

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We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even…

Believable

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Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're…

Bands

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I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the…

Plans

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I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Home

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My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making…

Chicken

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My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon strips with 'The Beano'…

Adult

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If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

Audience

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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…

Cinema

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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…

Always

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The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

About

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It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I…

Adapt

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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…

Degrees

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Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

Any

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Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that…

Animated

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I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

Get

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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…

Brain

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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.…

Animation

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