--- title: "4 Filmmaking Quotes By Travis Knight" description: "4 Filmmaking quotes by Travis Knight. Plus more from Travis Knight and more Filmmaking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/travis-knight-5695_ambition_our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-inde_144743.jpg" --- > [Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-independent-animation-filmmaking/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/travis-knight-5695_ambition_our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-inde_144743.jpg) > [Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/stop-motion-has-limitations-any-form-of-filmmaking-does-but-stop/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/travis-knight-5695_any_stop-motion-has-limitations-any-form-of_1317790.jpg) > [Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/stop-motion-is-filmmaking-at-the-pace-of-a-glacier-in-live-action-you/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/travis-knight-5695_action_stop-motion-is-filmmaking-at-the-pace-of_2564745.jpg) > [Sometimes the theme of the film is something that comes down to the way you designed the film - that you're saying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/sometimes-the-theme-of-the-film-is-something-that-comes-down-to-the/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/603/travis-knight-5695_film_sometimes-the-theme-of-the-film-is-somet_2661008.jpg) ## Other authors on Filmmaking - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-abhijit-naskar-99.jpg) Abhijit Naskar 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/abhijit-naskar/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-andrei-tarkovsky-12850.jpg) Andrei Tarkovsky 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/andrei-tarkovsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-werner-herzog-94806.jpg) Werner Herzog 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/werner-herzog/) - [Ti West 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/ti-west/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-peter-jackson-74887.jpg) Peter Jackson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/peter-jackson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-hickenlooper-37757.jpg) George Hickenlooper 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/george-hickenlooper/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-adam-clayton-9266.jpg) Darren Aronofsky 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/darren-aronofsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-takeshi-kitano-88705.jpg) Takeshi Kitano 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/takeshi-kitano/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-takashi-miike-3507.jpg) Takashi Miike 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/takashi-miike/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steven-spielberg-87547.jpg) Steven Spielberg 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/steven-spielberg/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paul-w-s-anderson-74228.jpg) Paul W. S. Anderson 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/paul-w-s-anderson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nicolas-winding-refn-71275.jpg) Nicolas Winding Refn 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/nicolas-winding-refn/) ## More by Travis Knight > [A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/a-fundamental-and-unfortunate-part-of-being-alive-is-to-suffer-loss/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [I love 'Princess Mononoke,' 'My Neighbour Totoro.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/i-love-princess-mononoke-my-neighbour-totoro/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-independent-animation-filmmaking/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [No TV show has meant more to me than 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/no-tv-show-has-meant-more-to-me-than-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [If you look at 'Coraline' and you look at 'ParaNorman' certainly you can tell that there are threads of the same DNA between those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/if-you-look-at-coraline-and-you-look-at-paranorman-certainly-you-can/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/i-fully-believe-that-representation-and-inclusion-matters-and-that-s/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/i-always-loved-that-solitary-experience-of-making-things-there-s-a/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/when-you-think-of-the-warm-grandmotherly-type-of-character-you-don-t/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/when-we-started-on-coraline-there-was-a-whole-host-of-things-that-we/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/when-you-look-back-over-100-years-when-stop-motion-was-really-at-the/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/this-medium-of-stop-motion-it-can-be-much-more-than-it-s-been-kind-of/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [I think there's an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/i-think-there-s-an-unfortunate-thing-where-a-lot-of-content-geared/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/people-have-been-declaring-stop-motion-dead-for-a-generation-but/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/i-won-t-say-which-one-but-one-shot-on-kubo-took-two-months-to-get-the/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) > [If you go back and look at those films, movies like 'Bambi' and 'Pinocchio,' there are elements that are incredibly dark. Yet no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/if-you-go-back-and-look-at-those-films-movies-like-bambi-and/) [Travis Knight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/travis-knight/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/filmmaking/travis-knight/#itemlist", "name": "4 Filmmaking Quotes By Travis Knight", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Travis Knight" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-independent-animation-filmmaking/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/travis-knight-5695_ambition_our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-inde_144743.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/travis-knight-5695_ambition_our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-inde_144743.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/travis-knight-5695_ambition_our-ambition-is-to-be-the-center-of-inde_144743.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in…” — Travis Knight", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Travis Knight" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/travis-knight/stop-motion-has-limitations-any-form-of-filmmaking-does-but-stop/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/travis-knight-5695_any_stop-motion-has-limitations-any-form-of_1317790.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/travis-knight-5695_any_stop-motion-has-limitations-any-form-of_1317790.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/travis-knight-5695_any_stop-motion-has-limitations-any-form-of_1317790.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.” — Travis Knight", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. 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