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" 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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" 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. "

Travis Beacham

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Think

Story

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Travis Beacham

You

Lot

" There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know. "

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

" You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus a movie. "

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

Travis Beacham

Writer

Film

" 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. "

" That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something. "

Travis Beacham

Remember

React

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

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

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

Travis Beacham

Feel

Source

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

" I think that's where the magic happens, when you get a bunch of people who are really, incredibly talented and good at what they do and very passionate about the project that they're working on and in love with it. I think that's when you get something that's really special. "

" 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. "

Travis Beacham

Way

Ray

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Travis Beacham

Write

People

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

Travis Beacham

Kid

Really