Travis Beacham Quotes

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

I wanted to understand the whole medium and that is when I decided to do television. Once I thought that, I was confident about making a film.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.