A lot can happen in two seconds, you learn to appreciate a second of time much more. You can say seven words in a second.Quote by Nick Park about teaching, word, time
Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.Quote by Nick Park about opinion, charm, americans
Any Hollywood studio, if they're doing a deal with somebody else, wants to own characters, but we have managed to keep hold of them.
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.Quote by Nick Park about name, rightness
I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.Quote by Nick Park about idea, thinking, home
I've always aspired to make a feature, and even in the shorts I think there is a sense that these are frustrated feature films.Quote by Nick Park about aspiration, common sense, sense
If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.Quote by Nick Park about respect, things
It has turned up the heat a bit to now give out an Oscar to a full-length animated feature. I think everyone was more relaxed before.Quote by Nick Park about opinion
My father used to make things a lot. He was always in the shed making things. In Grand Day Out, Wallace builds a rocket, and it reminded me of my dad.Quote by Nick Park about parents, things, day
Obviously DreamWorks have their eye on the marketing side, but we've been always encouraged by the short films.Quote by Nick Park about opinion
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.Quote by Nick Park about soul
We are a small company but we really treasure what we have, so I don't feel we've given anything up. We treated Wallace and Gromit as our crown jewels.Quote by Nick Park about affair, treasure, companies
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.Quote by Nick Park about things, computers, world
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.Quote by Nick Park about past
We're very aware of not losing the spirit of the early Wallace and Gromit films.Quote by Nick Park about spirit
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.Quote by Nick Park about commerce, prison, americans, people