Film Quotes by Travis Beacham

10 Film quotes by Travis Beacham

Travis Beacham’s ten succinct statements on cinema provide a quick window into his screenwriting mindset. This short list offers a handy snapshot of his take on the medium.

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

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

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

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

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If I could pick any story idea or script I had that I wanted everything to go exactly right for, it would…

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

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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…

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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…

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Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see,…

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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…

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We wanted it to be that you could go to the comic shop and read about the back story of 'Pacific Rim' and the…

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I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the…

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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There are no heroes in a world where heroes can’t die.

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I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it…

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Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in…

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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…

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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…

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