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.' Travis Beacham More Quotes by Travis Beacham More Quotes From Travis Beacham 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 beast rises from the pit - we will kill it. Travis Beacham pits moon life Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered by hardship. Hope is the urge to fight what is wrong even when you know it will destroy you. Hope is the decision to love and need someone knowing that they will one day die. For me to promise that there are no obstacles would be the cruelest lie I could possibly tell. That lie is not hope. Hope is the will which needs no lies. Travis Beacham fighting love lying There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait. Travis Beacham personality names character There are no heroes in a world where heroes can’t die. Travis Beacham dies hero world 'Carnival Row' is us looking at the stranger; 'The Curiosity' is the stranger looking at us. Travis Beacham us looking curiosity stranger 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. Travis Beacham game me you thinking 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. Travis Beacham view you political fighting It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater. Travis Beacham write see you want When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living. Travis Beacham movies thought first-time time I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me. Travis Beacham movies me love people 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. Travis Beacham down think you practice 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. Travis Beacham choose you experience freedom 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. Travis Beacham know building experience world As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does. Travis Beacham far more said television 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?' Travis Beacham yourself me moment you The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process. Travis Beacham more just process television 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. Travis Beacham whatever look you moon 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 anything like me way If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that. Travis Beacham level kid up involved 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. Travis Beacham you future time love
