Nick Park Quotes

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's happening with the characters, they can make choices all along the way that reinforce the main points of the scene. They really get to know what's happening.

The idea of 'Roja' was with me for seven years before I made it.

These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.

'Rocky' is an incredibly human story, and 'Creed' is very inspired by the Rocky lore, but there's something kind of profound in letting it all go. This is the first time I'm co-writing, and I'm learning as I go. This process is so different from 'Fruitvale'; hopefully it gets made.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I never write with an actor in mind - never.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

I think films are bigger than structure.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.