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 Read Quote
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there. Nick Park Read Quote
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. Nick Park Read Quote
There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you’ve won is completely draining. Nick Park Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. Nick Park Read Quote
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. Nick Park Read Quote
