John Knoll Quotes

John Knoll

Profession : Artist

Birth : October 6, 1962

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

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

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

I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the plans for the Death Star.

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 'Empire Strikes Back.' The 8-foot model and the 3-foot model are kind of different. A lot of the details are different between the two of them.

John Knoll

Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very heart of the Empire's military-industrial complex, the most secure facility in the Empire. You have a small band of experts with complementary skills who, together, are able to do these amazing things.

John Knoll

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

John Knoll

If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.

John Knoll

I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models.

John Knoll

Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference.

John Knoll

When I first started in the industry, there were - this is prior to the era of computer graphics and all these digital tools - there were some pretty rigid, technologically imposed limitations about how you shoot things, because if you didn't shoot 'em the right way, you couldn't make the shot work.

John Knoll

A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well.

John Knoll

There's no reason to think Disney is going to stop wanting to make 'Star Wars' movies if there's quality and there's interest. It has unlimited potential. It has a huge number of characters, worlds... It's a massive playground.

John Knoll

It's definitely an issue if the actor has passed away without stating any intention or desire about how his or her likeness should be dealt with. Then it falls to their estate. That's a problem that will start solving itself. Now the technology exists, and actors are aware of this and can make their wishes known.

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 to do was something that was largely self-taught.

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