Film Quotes by Travis Knight

12 Film quotes by Travis Knight

Travis Knight contributes 12 short quotes that hint at why movies matter to him, making a compact yet engaging read.

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It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

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I take a firm stand against sequels. My industry brethren are a little shocked at how firmly I'm committed to not doing…

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Historically, for a stop-motion film, you gathered the crew together, you made the movie, and then everyone ran screaming to the next…

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We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects…

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Portland doesn't have the same kind of infrastructure that the national film hubs have. We struggle with that a little bit.

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You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

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Ultimately, the goal is to be on an annual cycle - releasing a film every year.

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The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's…

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You see it in the stuff I've done at Laika: I've always tried to make movies that have an artful blend of…

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Laika's films aim to promote thought, feeling, and connectivity through art, inspired by our shared humanity. We're deeply gratified that the spirit…

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When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's…

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Sometimes the theme of the film is something that comes down to the way you designed the film - that you're saying…

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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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