Travis Beacham Quotes

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new 'Jurassic Park' movie for a new generation.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

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.

If 'Dabangg' starts looking like the 'Golmaal' or 'Dhoom' franchises, then people wouldn't be able to connect with it.

'Bubba Ho-Tep' was an accidental story that turned out to be my first film adaptation, and it's still going strong in story and film.

People always ask us, 'When are you guys gonna do a movie? When are you gonna do a TV show?' And to me, that feels like such a step backwards from where are.

I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.

I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast vein.

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

I don't choose my directors, but I choose my scripts wisely.