Travis Beacham

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”