Top 30 Bryan Konietzko Quotes

I think Korra, I later realized she was inspired by my sister, who is pretty tough.

That’s been the case for decades. ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘King of the Hill’ – they do the preproduction in America, and the production is in Korea or in some cases China, or occasionally Japan or India.

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.

As humans our hangups seem to shape our interaction with the world around us. They are often the source of our intolerance and friction with people who think differently than us, and even the reason we build walls between us and the people close to us.

After ‘Avatar’ ended, I spent a lot of time watching MMA and kickboxing fights on UFC, WEC, DREAM, and K-1.

I try to make the kinds of things I want to see out there in the world, and hope they end up resonating with other people too.

Mike and I like a balance of tones. We never set out to make an overtly silly show or an overly serious dramatic show.

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.

It is a long story how we finally ended up with the title simply being ‘The Legend of Korra,’ but in a poetic way, I think Korra’s big Type A personality willed it to happen!

We feel like we’re kind of movie guys working in TV. So we’re looking forward to that day when we get to work in that medium.

We really liked the magic of ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ but we could never figure out where the powers came from.

We’re always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

Hopefully, when we’re done with the ‘Korra’ saga we can put our stamp on a movie.

I am certainly proud to add ‘Korra’ to the pantheon of TV characters, which is perpetually sorely lacking in multifaceted female characters who aren’t sidekicks, subordinates or mere trophies for male characters.

Fans are more interested in imagining relationships between a myriad of pairings. But they’re profoundly disinterested in seeing any of those things manifest themselves on the show.

It wouldn’t be the Avatarverse without some hairstyle changes, now would it?

We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct motivations.

Since the first announcement of ‘Korra’ a few years ago, our fan presence online has just been huge and it’s really active online. And as TV distribution evolves, even between ‘Book 1’ and ‘Book 2,’ it’s evolved even more, our audience is increasingly online.

I always felt like Azula and Long Feng were much more interesting villains and three-dimensional characters than Ozai, who was just sort of a big jerk. Like a really big jerk, but not very complex or human.

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.

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.

When you have a fully-realized Avatar, it’s like Superman, and how do you make that interesting?

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.

I think it’s touching that the fans feel so close to the characters that they feel personally hurt. I’ve felt that way in plenty of TV shows – ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Mad Men.’ How could they do that to that character? That’s drama.

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers’ room and a team of people augmenting and adding to the material.

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.

There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow ‘Avatar’ is still being discovered by each new generation.

Book 4 is the end of the ‘Korra’ series. So we’ve got 52 episodes planned. When all is said and done it will have taken I think about five years to make.

The ‘Korra’ crew were like a family, and they’re so unbelievably talented and dedicated, and got along so well.

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.