Nick Park (Nicholas Wulstan Park) 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.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.
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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
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I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.
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I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
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Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.
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I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.
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The devotion of the BVB Army, with its very big online presence, is amazing. We've been fortunate from the very beginning. It was something that was really able to spur on our career.
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I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
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What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.
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I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
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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.
