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
'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.
Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'
I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.
Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.
When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker.
