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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "