Nick Park famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Tiny #World #Littles
Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.
-- Nick Park

#Suits #Cameras #Film
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
-- Nick Park

#Nice #Understanding #Invention
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.
-- Nick Park

#Real #Thinking #Light
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.
-- Nick Park

#Children #Father #Broken
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.
-- Nick Park

#Real #Giving #Machines
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.
-- Nick Park

#School #Television #London
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.
-- Nick Park

#Animal #League #Movement
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.
-- Nick Park

#Couple #Thinking #Two
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
-- Nick Park

#Film #Offbeat
My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
-- Nick Park

#Father #Photographer #Makers
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
-- Nick Park

#Past #Looks #Film
If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
-- Nick Park

#Enough #Audience
I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.
-- Nick Park

#Home #Thinking #Ideas
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.
-- Nick Park

#Dog #Cat #Names
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
-- Nick Park

#Cute #Strange #Kind
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.
-- Nick Park

#Art #Dad #Teenager

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