Travis Knight

It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

— Travis Knight

You have to find the thing you feel you can contribute to the world.

— Travis Knight

Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.

— Travis Knight

Phil is my father. He's a part of who I am. But I don't want to be defined by that.

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

Very few people view stop motion the way we do. We really try to use it - and animation generally - as…

— Travis Knight

Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

— Travis Knight

I won't say which one, but one shot on 'Kubo' took two months to get the expression right. It's ridiculous on some…

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

— Travis Knight

We respect that children are smart, sophisticated and can handle things that adults typically don't think they can.

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you…

— Travis Knight

Let's be honest, working in stop motion is awful. It's the worst. It's such a stupid way to make a movie. It's…

— Travis Knight

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

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Sometimes the theme of the film is something that comes down to the way you designed the film - that you're saying…

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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…

— Travis Knight

When your focus is franchises and brands, that limits the kinds of stories you can tell. That kind of thing can be…

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to…

— Travis Knight

The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's…

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

— Travis Knight

Portland and Oregon draw a certain kind of person to it. The city has extraordinarily talented people and sometimes it takes an…

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

Portland doesn't have the same kind of infrastructure that the national film hubs have. We struggle with that a little bit.

— Travis Knight

People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or…

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

When I became a father, I saw what passed for family entertainment. So much of it was vapid. I wanted to make…

— Travis Knight

We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects…

— Travis Knight

Rather than a taste for the macabre, I like the full range of human emotion in a story, which means darkness and…

— Travis Knight

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

— Travis Knight

Historically, for a stop-motion film, you gathered the crew together, you made the movie, and then everyone ran screaming to the next…

— Travis Knight

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to…

— Travis Knight

One of the great many things I love about being a father is sharing my beloved childhood experiences with my kids.

— Travis Knight

In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they…

— Travis Knight

The only kind of people who pursue stop-motion as a career are people who are absolutely in love with the medium.

— Travis Knight

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to…

— Travis Knight

If you look at films like the Rankin/Bass specials, those sorts of things, there's nothing inherently creepy about any of those, in…

— Travis Knight

My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest…

— Travis Knight

The interesting thing about Laika is that it's very much an island of misfit toys. It's unusual people with strange talents and…

— Travis Knight