Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're writing a comic book, you're really only talking to the artist. "

Travis Beacham

Writing

Only

People

Related Quotes:

" As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does. "

" When you have a movie that has big stars in it... like, Will Smith does a great job in 'I Am Legend,' and it's a magnetic performance, but he's always Will Smith. That's not his fault. That's not anyone's fault. He's the center of it, and he's a movie star. But when you see something like 'Jurassic Park,' Sam Neill is Alan Grant. "

" One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory. "

" You don't naturally tend to identify with someone who's very different from you on the outside. "

" I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want - something you can't do in a theater. "

" I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking. "

Travis Beacham

Filmmaking

Work

" I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative. "

" If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that. "

Travis Beacham

Kid

Really

" You don't necessarily have to have your movie made to have success. "

" The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process. "

Travis Beacham

Writer

Film

" I'm so enthralled with the whole universe of 'Pacific Rim.' I never get tired of it. I could do a sequel or two without ever getting sick of it. It's a once-in-a-lifetime idea that you never get sick of. "

" Legendary is in the unique position in that they have the resources to take risks, which I think has really benefitted 'Pacific Rim.' "

" When you watch zombie movies, and people say, 'What's going on? What are we going to do?' it's like they live in a world where they've never seen zombie movies. "

" If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series. "

" I do tend to be on the more optimistic end of things. "

Travis Beacham

Tend

Optimistic

" I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me. "

Travis Beacham

Write

People

" The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something. "

" Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12. "

Travis Beacham

You

Lot

" I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud. "

" I really fixated on any time there was any kind of monster in 'Star Wars,' even to the briefest second. As a kid, it really captivated my imagination. "

" I think my earliest 'Star Wars' memory that I have was from 'Return of the Jedi.' I distinctly remember the scene with the rancor under Jabba's Palace. "

" Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in. "

" That is always really fun when you get to work with a director you understand and uses references you can identify with. "

" We tend to see films as artifacts of one mind. The reality of it is, I think, when you come out here and start working, you have to learn pretty quickly that it's a very collaborative process. "

" I actually got into 'Ultraman' through the video games first, before I realized they were based on something. You remember how they had those fighting Ultraman video games? That's how I got into it. Then I started watching the show. Their kaiju look so weird. "

" I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums. "

Travis Beacham

Feel

Source

" I remember starting working on the concept and the script for 'Pacific Rim' with a very, very conscious decision to say, 'I don't want any of these big sequences to take place in America,' because I feel like that's become so regular to the disaster genre, and then it sort of devolves into landmark stomping. "

" The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It exists. "

" You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own. "

" You can only see 'Star Wars' for the first time once, and people are watching it again and again and again, and it's a testament to the strength beyond the plot twists that it has. The narrative strength that it has is that it can be enjoyed even though you know the biggest plot elements in it. "