Artist Quotes by Travis Knight

9 Artist quotes by Travis Knight

Travis Knight’s thoughts on the artist are distilled into nine compact lines that read like storyboards, each one painting a clear picture of his creative aspirations.

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I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of…

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I think any artist wants their artist to be seen and appreciated and enjoyed by as many people as possible.

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I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to…

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In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and…

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The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily…

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In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they…

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Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works…

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Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've…

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Works of art are like a Trojan horse. Under the surface is always some artist's deeply held philosophy on their view of…

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A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

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I love 'Princess Mononoke,' 'My Neighbour Totoro.'

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Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

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No TV show has meant more to me than 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

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If you look at 'Coraline' and you look at 'ParaNorman' certainly you can tell that there are threads of the same DNA between those…

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I fully believe that representation and inclusion matters... and that's why on all of our films, we've featured diverse casts, and that actually is…

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I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a…

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When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch.

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When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because…

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When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was…

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This medium of stop-motion, it can be much more than it's been kind of defined as - it's not just a creaky and anachronistic…

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I think there's an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down.

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People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or working with…

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I won't say which one, but one shot on 'Kubo' took two months to get the expression right. It's ridiculous on some level.

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If you go back and look at those films, movies like 'Bambi' and 'Pinocchio,' there are elements that are incredibly dark. Yet no one…

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