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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe them as specifically as I can, but I don't really picture anyone in particular. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living. "

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

" I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible. "

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

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

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" If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing. "

" With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was way into 'Voltron,' Ray Harryhausen: anything with giant monsters, I was really into. Even dinosaurs - for a while, I wanted to be a paleontologist. So it's almost like primal, ancestral mythology to me, this fascination with monsters. "

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

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" In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit. "

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

" Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see, from the producer to the director to the writers to the actors. I think 'Pacific Rim' has been an example of something that illustrates what you get if everyone is driving towards a common purpose. "

" It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater. "

" There's a lot of possibility in the 'Pacific Rim' universe for additional stories to be told, whether that's additional graphic novels or animated series or video games or movie sequels. "

" In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how they choose. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I grew up in the '80s, and you had these original, big-budget sci-fi adventure things all the time, not based on any source material - you'd have 'Gremlins,' 'Back to the Future,' 'E.T.' 'Ghostbusters,' the list goes on and on. I would love it so much if 'Pacific Rim' was but the first in a new wave of that sort of thing. "

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