Travis Knight Quotes

Travis Knight

Profession : Producer

Birth : September 13, 1973

One of the things that gives stop-motion its inherent magic is that you're seeing something imperfect and thus undeniably human - because it's made by human hands.

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We're not purists about stop-motion. If there's a tool we can use that makes more sense to bring something to life in a better way, we'll use it, whether that's hand-drawn animation or CG or some newfangled technology we're developing.

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We had so many firsts on 'Coraline' that I couldn't quite see where we'd go from there, but for 'ParaNorman' we developed this 'skewed naturalism' that marries a lot of intricate detail with a more cinematic approach, then just built on all that and pushed those techniques even further, so we can tell our stories that much more effectively.

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Very few people view stop motion the way we do. We really try to use it - and animation generally - as a powerful visual medium by which you can tell virtually any kind of story in any genre.

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Animation has been ghettoized through the years by giving the impression we only do the same kind of stories.

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When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch.

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I think there's an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down.

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Works of art are like a Trojan horse. Under the surface is always some artist's deeply held philosophy on their view of the world. But on the other hand, you do not want to make it feel like medicine. You do not want to make it feel like an afternoon TV special where you're trying to hammer a message into someone's head.

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We want to tell unique, individual, discrete stories with a unique and discrete individual point of view.

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Sometimes the theme of the film is something that comes down to the way you designed the film - that you're saying something about the world. And it's one of the things that I think animation can do, in a way that other forms of filmmaking can't do. Because every single thing you see has got to be designed and created.

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If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.

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It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

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Just because somebody works in miniature does not diminish or invalidate their contributions to the art form compared to someone who works in live action.

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The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's why we live in an era where you see reboots and sequels and remakes and prequels, all these old presents are re-wrapped and offered up as new gifts.

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The only kind of people who pursue stop-motion as a career are people who are absolutely in love with the medium.

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I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid, I climbed trees, hopped creek beds, read, watched movies, I'd make stories, make films.

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A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

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I loved Tolkien and I loved 'Star Wars,' which was the first memory that I have being in a movie theater. And, of course, that was the defining movie for me as a kid.

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In some ways we describe 'Boxtrolls' as 'Oliver Twist' if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he's an extraordinary artist, and animator.

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