Travis Knight Quotes

I think stop-motion has always been semi-obsolete. And stop-motion animators - people like myself - love it so much that we're always going to be looking for new ways to make our films.

I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never been done we have to invent the technology. 'ParaNorman' represents the realization of stop-motion's potential.

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.

One of the things that gives stop-motion its inherent magic is that you're seeing something imperfect and thus undeniably human - because it's made by human hands.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

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

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

Doing simple flip books, I used to get such a kick out of it, just drawings and nothing else.

I think animation can tell more than live action.

TV is great, and I love it, but to watch somebody's hand-crafted drawings on the big screen is an experience that we've forgotten as an audience, how much fun 2D can be.

There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.

As a film-maker, it's only natural to feel happy about new possibilities opening up.

There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.