Audience Quote by Bryan Konietzko

You've got to earn it; you're not just handed anything in life. That's why no one starts out as a perfect master.

— Bryan Konietzko

Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.

— Bryan Konietzko

We feel like we're kind of movie guys working in TV. So we're looking forward to that day when we get to work in…

— Bryan Konietzko

Aang was an airbending prodigy, but didn't even discover he could bend the other three elements on his own; whereas Korra was bending three…

— Bryan Konietzko

I'll just say that America - us included - has a long way to go to catch up with the animated work being done…

— Bryan Konietzko

When you have a fully-realized Avatar, it's like Superman, and how do you make that interesting?

— Bryan Konietzko

After 'Avatar' ended, I spent a lot of time watching MMA and kickboxing fights on UFC, WEC, DREAM, and K-1.

— Bryan Konietzko

We wanted the elemental 'bending' to be based on authentic Chinese traditional martial arts, believing this would lend a beauty and resonance to the…

— Bryan Konietzko

Hopefully, when we're done with the 'Korra' saga we can put our stamp on a movie.

— Bryan Konietzko

Mike and I figured out a lot about the world, characters and story in the initial two weeks between creating 'Avatar' and pitching it…

— Bryan Konietzko

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and nature shows,…

— Bryan Konietzko

With 'Korra' we've really taken a lot of time to craft it. We're aiming pretty high, and in order to keep up the quality…

— Bryan Konietzko