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Nick Park
Nick Park
British Director
Born: Dec 6, 1958
Films Made Me People World You
Related authors: Christopher Guest Christopher Nolan Derek Jarman Louis Theroux Richard Eyre Ridley Scott Sam Mendes Val Guest
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. Nick Park
Best Will Invent Those Kids Bored Purely Something Pots Make Boxes Tape Bands Wallace Often Children Elastic Urge Created Cardboard
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
Strange People First Sold Out Voices Put Clear Accents America Get Wallace American Them Shorts Held Rid Suggested British
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 Made Could Cat He Feel Longer Name Because Modeling Quite Just Nose Legs Bigger Right Started
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
Strange Cute Kind Find Charm Something Like Accent American Certain British
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. Nick Park
Films Slightly About Seems Something Like Offbeat Australian Psyche
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. Nick Park
Past Films Stuck New Look Get In The Past Forward Keep Filming
My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. Nick Park
Father Incurable Photographer Architectural Maker
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
Broken Old Father Machines Bits Would Throw Never Like Toys Box Bed Motors Child Anything Electric Useful Away Keeping Things
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. Nick Park
You World School Old Mind Own Draw Drawing Strips Dream Cartoon Could Through Adult Pile Understand Comic Bed Go Were Years Off Up Them Ill Yours Lived Started
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. Nick Park
You Move On Films Complete Projects Out Tend Take Head Idea Ideas Years Very Get Move Short Hankering Interested Next Your Four
I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming. Nick Park
School Trouble Get Used
The best films come about through experimentation. Nick Park
Best Films About Through Come Experimentation
There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining. Nick Park
You Situation Not Knowing Draining Worse Knowing Won Than Whether Oscar Night
It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation. Nick Park
Work Good You Too Much Made Too Changing Out Good Movie Kind Something Animation Make End Up Very Movie Custom Prefer Much Hard Things Adapt
Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free. Nick Park
Success Freedom Fight People Pressure Thought Free Would Stay More More People Lead True Involved Make Becomes Always Opposite Get Committees Conform Decisions Brings

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