Nick Park Quotes

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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 more believable.
• Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
• 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…
• I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.
• If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
• We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
• My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
• There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
• Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.
• I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.
• The best films come about through experimentation.
• 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…
• Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.

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