John Knoll

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

— John Knoll

In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later.

— John Knoll

I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career.

— John Knoll

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

— John Knoll

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

— John Knoll

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

— John Knoll

It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.

— John Knoll

Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.

— John Knoll

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

— John Knoll

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

You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as…

— John Knoll

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

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

When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry.…

— John Knoll

I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion…

— John Knoll

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

I came in during the era of models, motion control, and optical printers. ILM had just started its own computer graphics division,…

— John Knoll

I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us…

— John Knoll

If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M.…

— John Knoll

Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them…

— John Knoll

There was a 3-foot-long model that was built for 'New Hope,' and then there was an 8-foot model that was built for…

— John Knoll

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

'Phantom Menace' was a huge project. It was the biggest visual effects production ever done at that point, and it was a…

— John Knoll

It's part of the culture at ILM and at Lucasfilm that the work is better when you collaborate, you know. There's this…

— John Knoll

When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker.

— John Knoll

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

— John Knoll

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

— John Knoll

'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and…

— John Knoll

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

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.

— John Knoll

I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

— John Knoll

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

A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source…

— John Knoll

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

'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

I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the…

— John Knoll

A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and…

— John Knoll

Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as…

— John Knoll

We were in an atmosphere in the household that you could accomplish anything you set your mind to. If you were willing…

— John Knoll

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and…

— John Knoll