Travis Beacham Quotes

If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that I come up with will fit into that film.

Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, 'I can't believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.'

I see my actors as my collaborators.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

When you're working with a producer, there has to be chemistry.

I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.

I've worked with Jonah Nolan on several projects. I really love collaborating with him.

I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.