Travis Knight Quotes

Travis Knight

Profession : Producer

Birth : September 13, 1973

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

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I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

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When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.

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You see it in the stuff I've done at Laika: I've always tried to make movies that have an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth. That have a thinking brain and a strong beating heart at the centre of it.

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

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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.

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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 sequels.

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The interesting thing about Laika is that it's very much an island of misfit toys. It's unusual people with strange talents and very unusual passions who have somehow found each other.

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

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

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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 a fourteen year-old girl. Whatever. The show was incredible. It refused to be pigeonholed.

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

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My kids have terrible taste.

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

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

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

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

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I made friends slowly when I made them at all.

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If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you can see some of his influence throughout.

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

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