The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
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.
The best films come about through experimentation.
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.
My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.
I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.
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.
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.
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.
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