Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
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I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.
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For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
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Form follows beauty.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme - if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.
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I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
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It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.
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I am here talking to 'Rolling Stone' because of an iPhone. Music has transformed because of Apple.
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Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.
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There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
