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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Where do you go after something like 'Pacific Rim?' Which, for me, was such a moment, to have this thing and see it all come together, and it's big, and it has this cult following... You ask yourself, 'What's next?' "

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

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Feel

Source

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Travis Beacham

Writer

Film

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think, in general, as a writer, you can't really hide your values. They're always going to fall out onto the page, and I tend to trust that I don't have to force my ideals into the expression of what's going to happen naturally. "

" 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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Way

Ray

" 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. "

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

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

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

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People

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

Travis Beacham

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Really