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 More Quotes by Nick Park More Quotes From Nick Park 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. Nick Park tiny littles world I think we all have a Wallace and Gromit inside us. Wallace is the part that has wild plans. Gromit is the sensible side, reining you in. Nick Park sensible sides thinking Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses. Nick Park no-excuses suits cameras The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. Nick Park invention nice understanding 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. Nick Park film-and-television degrees school My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender. Nick Park incurable-disease photographer father 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. Nick Park teenager dad art 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. Nick Park light real thinking 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 electric-motors father children 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 machines real giving 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 rays league animal We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. Nick Park film looks past 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 kind cute But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart. Nick Park elderly couple thinking If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things. Nick Park audience ifs enough I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas. Nick Park home ideas thinking There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. Nick Park offbeat australian film 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 will best bored children I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay. Nick Park team sometimes love hands 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 american strange america people
