Nick Park Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

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.

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