69 Quotes by Bryan Konietzko

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.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

I think Korra, I later realized she was inspired by my sister, who is pretty tough.

Nickelodeon came to us at the end of 2009 with a twelve episode 'mini-season' already green-lit for a new series. They let us do pretty much whatever we wanted with it, as long as it was in the 'Avatar' universe and featured bending.

Some Nickelodeon executives were worried about backing an animated action show with a female lead character. Conventional TV wisdom has it that girls will watch shows about boys, but boys won't watch shows about girls. During test screenings, though, boys said they didn't care that Korra was a girl. They just said she was awesome.

We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.

I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.

'Korra' is its own series. Obviously it's tied in, in the same world, a similar story, but it's not just 'Book Four' of 'The Last Airbender.'

Hopefully, when we're done with the 'Korra' saga we can put our stamp on a movie.