Travis Knight

I made friends slowly when I made them at all.

— Travis Knight

The water in 'Life of Pi' is very realistic.

— Travis Knight

I'm a child of the '80s.

— Travis Knight

My kids have terrible taste.

— Travis Knight

You only have so much time on this planet.

— Travis Knight

I love 'Spirited Away,' that's a huge one.

— Travis Knight

I know I have exacting standards.

— Travis Knight

You can never tell what's going to be popular.

— Travis Knight

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

— Travis Knight

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

— Travis Knight

I love 'Princess Mononoke,' 'My Neighbour Totoro.'

— Travis Knight

When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch.

— Travis Knight

Ultimately, the goal is to be on an annual cycle - releasing a film every year.

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

I love Oregon and want to see the state continue to thrive and evolve.

— Travis Knight

No TV show has meant more to me than 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

All of the things we learned on 'Coraline' we applied to 'ParaNorman,' and all of the things we learned on 'ParaNorman' and…

— Travis Knight

A principal struggle of many young companies is to establish an identity, a philosophical and emotional core, and LAIKA is no exception.

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

I think there's an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down.

— Travis Knight

Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works…

— Travis Knight

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears -…

— Travis Knight

Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've…

— Travis Knight

Historically, stop-motion animation has had a jerky-jerky quality, which is a constant reminder to audiences that they're looking at artificial objects. It…

— Travis Knight

While you're testing out armatures of puppets, you're also trying to find the proper visual vocabulary for the character and to come…

— Travis Knight

Laika's films aim to promote thought, feeling, and connectivity through art, inspired by our shared humanity. We're deeply gratified that the spirit…

— Travis Knight

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's…

— Travis Knight

If you look at 'Coraline' and you look at 'ParaNorman' certainly you can tell that there are threads of the same DNA…

— Travis Knight

One of the other things that I love about Miyazaki's films, is that when he sets a film in Europe, it's not…

— Travis Knight

If you go back and look at those films, movies like 'Bambi' and 'Pinocchio,' there are elements that are incredibly dark. Yet…

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

— Travis Knight

It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'

— Travis Knight

My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.

— Travis Knight

If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

— Travis Knight

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight