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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This rabbit is really a vicious monster. He doesn't eat people, but instead saves his dirty work for vegetables. In many ways, we're the world's first vegetarian horror movie.
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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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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.
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There are things that have gone -- sets and props from The Wrong Trousers.
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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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Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.
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Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.
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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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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.