Nick 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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  World, Littles, Tiny

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• I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in.

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  Thinking, Sides, Sensible

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• The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

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  Nice, Understanding, Invention

  "A dog's life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2005.

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• 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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  Real, Giving, Machines

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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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  Cameras, Suits, No Excuses

  "Portrait of the artist: Nick Park, film-maker". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2009.

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• 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.

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  Dog, Cat, Names

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• 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.

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  Animal, League, Rays

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

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  Enough, Audience, Ifs

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• 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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  Art, Dad, Teenager

  "Portrait of the artist: Nick Park, film-maker". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2009.

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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, Looks, Film

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• 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.

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  Couple, Thinking, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Real, Thinking, Light

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• 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.

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  Children, Father, Electric Motors

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• I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

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  Home, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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.

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  School, Degrees, Film And Television

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• My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

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  Father, Photographer, Incurable Disease

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• 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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  Cute, Strange, Kind

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• There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

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  Film, Offbeat, Australian

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