Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.
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I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.
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If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.
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Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.
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I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.
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I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
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I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
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Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.
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There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!
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I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.
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I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.
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That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.
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I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.
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'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.
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There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
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Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.
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Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?'
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Now, everyone in movies is always rich, and they're always beautiful and graceful-looking.
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There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
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I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
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I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people.
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I love big movies, and I love big moments.
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I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.
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I'm such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we've reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they're telling us how they're doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It'd be nice to get a little of the mystery back in.