Nick Park Quotes

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

Find, Strange, Cute

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

Made, Dog, Started

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

Home, Thinking, Ideas

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, Down, After

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

Nothing, Two, Couple

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

Work, Fine, Animal

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

Work, Greatest, Real

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

Respect, Enough, Audience

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

Father, Old, Broken

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

Father, Maker, Incurable

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

Seems, Films, Psyche

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

Computers, Before, Build

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
Nick Park

Forward, Past, Keep

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out.
Nick Park

America, Strange, Put

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, Brain, Light

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Nationality: British

Born: December 6, 1958

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