Nick Park Quotes

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

Animation is very much a team effort so you must be a team player.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a character.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting.