Travis Beacham Quotes

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.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

'Iron Man 3' was very educational. There's a train that starts moving which already has so many moving parts, and it's a constant process of animatics and storyboards and consulting meetings, and it's a very mechanical process once the script is written. It's sprawling, and they're throwing money at it to get these things accomplished.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

I love the work that goes into making a movie and creating a different world. It is a wholesome experience.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

You can make amazing sci-fi films if you want to with very, very little money and very advanced technology that can run on your desktop.

Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

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.