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Travis Knight

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[Wikipedia] Travis Andrew Knight is an American filmmaker, animator, and former rapper. The son of the Nike co-founder Phil Knight, he has worked as the lead animator and current CEO for the stop-motion animation studio Laika, including directing the company's films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and the upcom

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I think any artist wants their artist to be seen and appreciated and enjoyed by as many people as possible.

Art

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From all the iterations, Bumblebee has been the Transformer with the most connection to people.

Been

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At LAIKA, we try to find an artful balance of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, and humor and heart. The idea…

Balance

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Nike is like a member of the family. Undoubtedly some of that stuff is in my DNA.

Dna

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There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

Always

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Everything I've tried to do at Laika, searching for an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, humour and heart,…

Darkness

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Coming from the world of animation, every single line counts; every single gesture counts. You put thought into every single one of…

Animation

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Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

Any

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We had so many firsts on 'Coraline' that I couldn't quite see where we'd go from there, but for 'ParaNorman' we developed…

Detail

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I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of…

Art

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Animation has been ghettoized through the years by giving the impression we only do the same kind of stories.

Giving

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When 'Buffy' was on the air, I recorded every single episode on my TiVo. I'm pretty sure my DVR thought I was…

Air

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We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

Best

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One of the things that gives stop-motion its inherent magic is that you're seeing something imperfect and thus undeniably human - because…

Hands

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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.

Film

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I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

History

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My brother and I had unresolved things. I just wish I could have had one final conversation with him.

Brother

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I loved Tolkien and I loved 'Star Wars,' which was the first memory that I have being in a movie theater. And,…

Being

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If you go too small, you can't get the performance you need out of the small little parts. And if you go…

Difficult

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We want to tell unique, individual, discrete stories with a unique and discrete individual point of view.

Point

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The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily…

Always

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I was athletic growing up and that was, of course, a big part of my household, but it wasn't something that I…

About

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We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

Conformity

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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…

How

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Stop-motion is sort of the redheaded stepchild of animation. But it's incredibly beautiful.

Animation

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