Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught. — John Knoll Been Copy Share Image
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it. — John Knoll Art Copy Share Image
You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop. — John Knoll Around Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?' — John Knoll Eighty Copy Share Image
In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later. — John Knoll Animation Copy Share Image
ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division. — John Knoll Business Copy Share Image
I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career. — John Knoll Always Copy Share Image
A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source… — John Knoll Industry Copy Share Image
Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do… — John Knoll Better Copy Share Image
Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited,… — John Knoll Excited Copy Share Image
'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on.… — John Knoll Career Copy Share Image
A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and… — John Knoll Cockpit Copy Share Image
I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the… — John Knoll Death Copy Share Image
Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as… — John Knoll I think Copy Share Image
On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and… — John Knoll Completion Copy Share Image
I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be… — John Knoll Big Copy Share Image
There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into… — John Knoll Aesthetic Copy Share Image
If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot… — John Knoll Army Copy Share Image
There are things that I am nostalgic about from the 'good old days.' I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the… — John Knoll Control Copy Share Image
I read a magazine called 'Cinefantastique' that had just come out with a making of 'Star Wars' issue. They had some very… — John Knoll Come Copy Share Image
It's definitely an issue if the actor has passed away without stating any intention or desire about how his or her likeness… — John Knoll Desire Copy Share Image
Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very… — John Knoll Complicated Copy Share Image
I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It… — John Knoll Looking Copy Share Image
Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car. — John Knoll Car Copy Share Image
We were in an atmosphere in the household that you could accomplish anything you set your mind to. If you were willing… — John Knoll Accomplish Copy Share Image
I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is… — John Knoll Big Copy Share Image
Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference. — John Knoll Action Copy Share Image
A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game. — John Knoll Change Copy Share Image
As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby. — John Knoll Career Copy Share Image
You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as… — John Knoll Allowed Copy Share Image
I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid… — John Knoll Been Copy Share Image
When you are shooting traditional motion capture, it's a big footprint on set. There are, like, 16 cameras that are needed and… — John Knoll Big Copy Share Image
I certainly have opinions about things, but we're a service organization. Our job is to try and realize the director's vision. — John Knoll Director Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion… — John Knoll Camera Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job. — John Knoll Another Copy Share Image
'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and… — John Knoll Chance Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood. — John Knoll Career Copy Share Image
Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever. — John Knoll Another Copy Share Image
