Travis Knight Quotes

Travis Knight

Profession : Producer

Birth : September 13, 1973

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

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I fully believe that representation and inclusion matters... and that's why on all of our films, we've featured diverse casts, and that actually is true for 'Kubo' as well.

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

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I'm a child of the '80s.

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I know I have exacting standards.

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

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Rather than a taste for the macabre, I like the full range of human emotion in a story, which means darkness and light. It means warmth, but it also potentially means scares.

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Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears - you want that full range of emotion.

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

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

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When your focus is franchises and brands, that limits the kinds of stories you can tell. That kind of thing can be good for the bottom line but they're not particularly good for showcasing the diversity of human experience.

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If you go back and look at those films, movies like 'Bambi' and 'Pinocchio,' there are elements that are incredibly dark. Yet no one batted an eye, thinking that kind of entertainment was inappropriate for children.

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

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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 creates a barrier between the audience having an emotional experience and what they're looking at. We're working hard to get past that.

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I was athletic growing up and that was, of course, a big part of my household, but it wasn't something that I was necessarily passionate about.

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While you're testing out armatures of puppets, you're also trying to find the proper visual vocabulary for the character and to come up with a guidebook of sorts for how a character will move and act.

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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 too big, the puppet gets difficult to move, because it's too heavy, and there's too much material, and it becomes this exercise in just moving these massive parts around. So there is a natural scale that makes sense for stop-motion.

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Commingling keenly felt emotion, madcap humor, and retina-bursting visuals, 'Missing Link' is a kaleidoscopic cinematic experience unlike any other.

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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 ridiculous. You're literally playing around with these dolls that are maybe 9 inches tall, trying to coax a performance out of it.

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I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of quality.

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