100 Quotes by Travis Knight

People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or working with your hands.

We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects of ourselves reflected back.

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

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's happening with the characters, they can make choices all along the way that reinforce the main points of the scene. They really get to know what's happening.

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

If you look at films like the Rankin/Bass specials, those sorts of things, there's nothing inherently creepy about any of those, in fact those are fairly warm.

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

Stop-motion has limitations, any form of filmmaking does, but stop-motion has a lot of limitations.

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.