Nick Park Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.”