Travis Beacham Quotes

What captivated me about 'The Flash' is the human drama in it.

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

Roles don't fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

Well, I'm always drawn to the drama first. A story is really only interesting to me, if you can remove all of the genre moments and remove the supernatural element, and it still works. Then, I'm interested.

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

People want a story - and my horror films have never been about only ghosts and spirits. They have their share of love, hatred, jealousy and complexity of relationships involved.

I'm just drawn to something that has a good story. 'Outcasts' didn't do so well, but I really admired the premise behind the show.

Like any compelling show on television, what works best in WWE is relationships. What's the relationship between these two people, and how does the conflict manifest itself into box office?

'Jersey' is a very strong story and is driven by emotions.

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.

It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.

You can have characters that say one thing and do another, and in certain kinds of drama, you can't get away with that because the audience will become confused - or certainly, the commissioners will become confused and tell you to stop doing it!

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

Drama comes from characters changing. If characters stay the same and nothing changes, there's really nothing to look at.

Action should always be about character and story, not a gimmick.

Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.

It's just not interesting to play happy people.

Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.

We use wrestling moves to tell a story but it boils down to the character and being able to bring either love or hate out of your crowd.

Comedy is one of my favorites, but I also want to get into drama and sci-fi.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.