80 Quotes by Nick Park

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

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

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.

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.

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.

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

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

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.

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