Nick Park Quotes

United Kingdom, Animator
December 6, 1960

Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI, is an English animator, director and writer 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 (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).

Also known as Director, Writer, Producer

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.

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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.

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We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

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

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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 you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

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- Ideas
- Head
- Projects
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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- Success
- Freedom
- Pressure
Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

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- Film
- Camera
- Budget
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

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- British
- Charm
- Accent

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.

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

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- Respect
- Audience
- Take