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You've got to earn it; you're not just handed anything in life. That's why no one starts out as a perfect master.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Earn
#Life
#Master
#Perfect
#Why
I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That's drama at its finest for me.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Character
#Drama
#Me
#Nothing
#Others
I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Just
#Learning
#Love
#Same Thing
#Things
Definitely female MMA fighters, I'm a big mixed martial arts fan, and watching women's MMA grow was definitely an inspiration. We just had an idea for a character and wanted to do a personality that was the opposite of Aang's, and that's how Korra came about.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Big
#Character
#Grow
#Personality
#Women
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.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Balance
#Character
#Society
#Struggle
Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Balance
#Dramatic
#Never
#Serious
#Show
I always feel pressure, no matter what I do! I think it is what gets me up in the morning.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Feel
#Matter
#Me
#Morning
#Pressure
Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Dark
#Evil
#Good
#Light
#Old
The social and political climate came from discussions about how we could find conflict in the wake of a 100-year-long war ending. But as we know in the real world, just because a war ends it doesn't mean that everything turns happy and peaceful. That provided us with some new kinds of conflict for us to explore in 'Korra.'
- Bryan Konietzko
#Conflict
#Ending
#Political
#War
#World
When you have a fully-realized Avatar, it's like Superman, and how do you make that interesting?
- Bryan Konietzko
#How
#Interesting
#Like
#Make
#Superman
We knew we wanted the 'magic' in our show to be different than the typical wand-wielding spell-casting fare. For us, it had to be natural and physical, with a source and rules and limitations - and most importantly it had to be a skill rather than just a power, something that a practitioner had to learn and strive for.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Magic
#Power
#Rules
#Skill
#Strive
We wanted the elemental 'bending' to be based on authentic Chinese traditional martial arts, believing this would lend a beauty and resonance to the animation and the fictitious disciplines. Once we had that idea, I started looking for a Kung Fu teacher/Martial Arts consultant. My search led me to Sifu Kisu and I began training with him right away.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Beauty
#Looking
#Me
#Search
#Training
Though we did have a few main characters in 'Avatar' who represented the non-benders of the world, most of the people we focused on were benders. However, benders are the minority in their world population.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Did
#Minority
#People
#Who
#World
In a lot of ways, their journeys are opposite of each other's: Aang was a peace-loving monk, through and through, whereas Korra is a dyed in the wool fighter.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Fighter
#Monk
#Opposite
#Through
#Wool
Aang was an airbending prodigy, but didn't even discover he could bend the other three elements on his own; whereas Korra was bending three of the elements at age four.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Age
#Bend
#Four
#Own
#Three
We don't dwell on the business of Korra restoring everyone's bending in 'Book 2,' but we figured she got around to helping the innocent people who lost it in the months between the seasons.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Business
#Innocent
#Lost
#Seasons
#She
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.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Action
#Character
#Nonsense
#Us
#Wisdom
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.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Action
#Care
#Character
#Test
#Will
#Wisdom
It wouldn't be the Avatarverse without some hairstyle changes, now would it?
- Bryan Konietzko
#Changes
#Hairstyle
#Now
#Without
#Would
We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and nature shows, and our own life experiences.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Animation
#Life
#Movies
#Nature
#Science
I think Korra, I later realized she was inspired by my sister, who is pretty tough.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Later
#She
#Sister
#Tough
#Who
I'll just say that America - us included - has a long way to go to catch up with the animated work being done in a handful of countries, namely Japan.
- Bryan Konietzko
#America
#Done
#Long
#Way
#Work
Mike and I were really interested in other epic 'Legends & Lore' properties, like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' but we knew that we wanted to take a different approach to that type of genre. Our love for Japanese Anime, Hong Kong action & Kung Fu cinema, yoga, and Eastern philosophies led us to the initial inspiration for 'Avatar.'
- Bryan Konietzko
#Action
#Cinema
#Legends
#Love
#Us
I thought Korra was 17 so Mike and I have to get our stories straight. The main characters are in their late teens, we've always loved those kind of teen love triangle type stories and there was plenty of that in the original series.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Always
#Late
#Love
#Loved
#Teen
Early on, many years ago when we started 'Avatar,' the executive that we were working with said to make the sad scenes sadder, the funny scenes funnier, the scary scenes scarier. That was kind of permission to do what we felt comfortable with.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Comfortable
#Early
#Funny
#Sad
#Said
Korra and Aang ultimately stand for freedom, equality, and basic human rights, and I think Mike and I are fine with pushing that agenda.
- Bryan Konietzko
#Equality
#Freedom
#Human
#Rights
#Stand
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