A biography for Travis Beachamhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible.”
“I actually got into 'Ultraman' through the video games first, before I realized they were based on something. You remember how they had those fighting Ultraman video games? That's how I got into it. Then I started watching the show. Their kaiju look so weird.”
“Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.”
“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.”
“If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.”
“I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.”
“You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.”
“'Carnival Row' is us looking at the stranger; 'The Curiosity' is the stranger looking at us.”
“The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.”
“You don't naturally tend to identify with someone who's very different from you on the outside.”