Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work. John Knoll More Quotes by John Knoll More Quotes From John Knoll Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it. John Knoll badgoodethicsartist There are things that I am nostalgic about from the 'good old days.' I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it's still warranted, but it's done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons. John Knoll i-amgoodworklove You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop. John Knoll somethingseeyoudone Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible. John Knoll possibletrythinkreal 'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and 'Robotech' and all those kinds of things. John Knoll moviesthingsmechance Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever. John Knoll picturewhatevertroubleway When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker. John Knoll kidhobbies I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood. John Knoll mechildhoodluckyenough Reacting is so important to the craft of acting. John Knoll craftreactingactingimportant Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?' John Knoll joblikelookreal When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker. John Knoll skillfirstkidfilm If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s. John Knoll picturessoldiersyouarmy ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division. John Knoll hadfirstcompanydivision I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career. John Knoll doingyoualwaysenjoy Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught. John Knoll almostsomethingbeeneverything It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one. John Knoll pictureyourfirstget You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to. John Knoll storytryyouphysics When you are shooting traditional motion capture, it's a big footprint on set. There are, like, 16 cameras that are needed and constraints over the lighting. John Knoll likeyoushootingcapture In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later. John Knoll decisionschangesyouanimation Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car. John Knoll neverknowyoucar
