Nick Park
Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English director, writer, and animator 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, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth6 December 1958
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We were aware that we were going more global this time, but we didn't want to change anything so it kept its individual, British, small-budget feel.
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If you didn't put that level of detail in, you'd actually miss it, ... You'd know it was fudged. The film had to be made so that you try and think of something comical that you'll see on the DVD one day.
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It's all just some kind of sentimental kind of nostalgic stuff, so in the context of world disasters at the moment, the way people are suffering, it's not any great deal, really.
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The word 'soon' is probably not applicable here, though. You may have to wait a few years.
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It can only be a good thing from my point of view. With all the kind of movement toward computer animation and as great as many of those films are, there's more people who have been employed in stop-motion animation in the last year than ever before.
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I think it's because Lady Tottington and Victor are aristocrats,
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In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple,
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In many ways, I thought of them as an elderly couple, ... They're inseparable, they live in each other's pockets. There's a kind of love-hate relationship, but they'll always look out for each other at the end of the day.
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an Impressionist painting where you can see the brush strokes. It's part of the aesthetic.
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The cab driver must have been a big fan.
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The clay figures don't keep well. They do keep for a year or two, and then the clay cracks up and falls off the skeleton. I guess they could demand a facelift.
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Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.
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If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
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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' in mind. I lived in that world. You own a comic, it's yours and adults don't understand it. You could pile them up under the bed, and if you were off school ill, you'd go through them all.