A biography for Travis Knighthasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“If you can connect with the audience emotionally, that's potent storytelling.”
“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.”
“At LAIKA, we try to find an artful balance of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, and humor and heart. The idea of being able to bring that philosophy to 'Bumblebee' was really exciting.”
“No TV show has meant more to me than 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'”
“From all the iterations, Bumblebee has been the Transformer with the most connection to people.”
“I'm a child of the '80s.”
“We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.”
“I know I have exacting standards.”
“The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.”
“Nike is like a member of the family. Undoubtedly some of that stuff is in my DNA.”
“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.”
“It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'”
“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.”
“Animation has been ghettoized through the years by giving the impression we only do the same kind of stories.”
“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.”
“When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch.”
“Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.”
“My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.”
“When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.”