Christopher Knight Quotes

Often, I'll ask clients who've found a great contracting relationship how they did so. The answer is almost always that they heard about them through a friend or colleague.

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

I must have worked with over 100 actors, but I think there are four to five names I count on my fingers and say they are my friends.

Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.

All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists, lighting crew, etc.

In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know.

A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.

This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I'm working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I'm working with another really good friend.

Artists such as Lorna Simpson, Zoe Leonard, Byron Kim and Stephen Andrews and I are around the same age, and I know them personally. The discussions I have had with them over the years have influenced the work that I have made throughout my career.

I've worked with Judd since 'Undeclared,' and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.

I realized that I'm increasingly in a position where I know a network of people, and I'm able to connect more or less anyone.

Often, the best jobs come out of just meeting people and letting one thing lead to another.

I definitely made friends with the people I like to write with, but I'll also write with people I haven't met before or producers I haven't met before because how are you supposed to make those friends without trying?

I try to always work with the same hair and makeup people, so they're my friends, and that makes the process so much more fun.

Holiday hiring is only useful if you get the right people, and the consensus among HR professionals is that the most consistent and efficient means of finding good people is to use word of mouth. Namely, this is because focusing on referrals means that only people who are already within your network will apply.

Behind every big artist, there's a big team.

I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.

I have a tremendous network of friends and colleagues at other firms.

Some of the artists I've been working with it's been just work, you know what I'm saying? But in the industry I feel like the relationship is stronger than the work sometimes.

There's lots of people I'd love to work with.

I hang out with people I have worked with - most of my friends I've met because I've worked with them, to be honest.

If you work with a big director, access to stars becomes easier.

Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you - you don't really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.