Travis Beacham Quotes

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

It would be great to read a script, which is an action script uniquely written so that it doesn't cost an arm or a leg because we are now accustomed to seeing action in the superhero form.

Going from 'Dexter' to 'Powerpuff,' there was a lot of dialogue, there was a lot of... you know, we did action, of course, but I was getting burned out on the words, and both shows had this big, thick black outline.

I never... it's a hard thing: when I think about projects, I don't come off something and go, 'I really want to make a sci-fi film next,' or 'I really want to do a political thriller next.' It's really coming across - I'm really fascinated, partly by world building, but also about the character and what the journey is.

I enjoyed watching 'Mirzapur,' 'Sacred Games.' There are interesting shows.

I worked with many directors in my life, but Tim Miller is definitely my favorite. He not only has a beautiful sense of directing actors, but he also shares a great love and passion for the comic book world, as I do.

I would love to do a Malayalam film if the right script and character comes along.

Be it films or shows or plays, it's the content that matters the most.

From the moment we started working on the first 'Wreck-It Ralph,' we knew there were so many possibilities with these characters.

'Raging Bull' was just a dream to work on, but it took a lot of work to get all those fights to work right and incorporate them properly into the story.

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'

Writing novels is so much more satisfying than writing television.

What you want to do in a film is encapsulate the characters and the stories into one focused, coherent two-hour time block, and that's sometimes hard to do especially when you have a group as varied and distinctive as the 'X-Men' are.

Hollywood has cracked emotions very well with animation, and that is where India will eventually cover because it is an emotional country, and we just want a right story to tell, which will stir the right emotions with the audience.

One thing Vince McMahon does, and he does a lot of things great, but he knows how to create great television, very compelling television.

If I like a particular character or story, I usually say yes to the film.

Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.

When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.