Travis Knight Quotes

Travis Knight

Profession : Producer

Birth : September 13, 1973

We don't want to make little pop culture ephemera or confections, that sort of thing, and so 'ParaNorman' like 'Coraline' has something meaningful to say.

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This medium of stop-motion, it can be much more than it's been kind of defined as - it's not just a creaky and anachronistic way of making films, it actually is a very vital art form that can do wonderful things if put in the right hands.

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Everything I've tried to do at Laika, searching for an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, humour and heart, I wanted to bring to the Transformers franchise.

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From all the iterations, Bumblebee has been the Transformer with the most connection to people.

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Laika's films aim to promote thought, feeling, and connectivity through art, inspired by our shared humanity. We're deeply gratified that the spirit of our work has resonated so strongly with audiences around the world.

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You can never tell what's going to be popular.

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Stop-motion is sort of the redheaded stepchild of animation. But it's incredibly beautiful.

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My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.

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

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Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

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The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.

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

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You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

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

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I love Oregon and want to see the state continue to thrive and evolve.

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

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All of the things we learned on 'Coraline' we applied to 'ParaNorman,' and all of the things we learned on 'ParaNorman' and 'Coraline' we applied to 'The Boxtrolls.'

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Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

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Artists are neurotic and hypersensitive, and they tend to focus on granular details, sometimes at the expense of the big picture. I've gotten better at the big picture over the years.

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A principal struggle of many young companies is to establish an identity, a philosophical and emotional core, and LAIKA is no exception.

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