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" 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. "

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" Once you start putting in political subtext, it does create intellectually challenging science-fiction, but with 'Pacific Rim,' I always thought it would be a shame if kids couldn't go see this movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters because it seemed to have a political point of view. "

" If I could pick any story idea or script I had that I wanted everything to go exactly right for, it would probably be 'Pacific Rim.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We wanted it to be that you could go to the comic shop and read about the back story of 'Pacific Rim' and the drama inherent in it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "