Travis Knight Quotes

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

I think 'Paranorman' was a great adventure.

With 'Korra' we've really taken a lot of time to craft it. We're aiming pretty high, and in order to keep up the quality it just takes a lot of time and a lot or work.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is that it's not a whole lot different from what you do in live action.

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

What's so cool about movies is once you're done with the movie, you put it away and come up with a whole new different idea with different characters and a different world. But in TV, you build these characters, and you build this world, and then you're there for however long you do the show.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

I like making movies.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.