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
'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
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
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
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
I came in during the era of models, motion control, and optical printers. ILM had just started its own computer graphics division,… — John Knoll Control 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
If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M.… — John Knoll Brother 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
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
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
ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division. — John Knoll Business 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
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'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
Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car. — John Knoll Car 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
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
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 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
The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the… — John Knoll Cool 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
As Lucasfilm is developing IP and we're working on our projects, we should be using those films to advance the ball further… — John Knoll Better Copy Share Image
There's a shot that I designed to try and illustrate the scale of the Death Star that's sort of framed in close… — John Knoll Death Copy Share Image
