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 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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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 think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.
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I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you're being healthy, if you're exercising. You don't need to be undermined by some crazy number.
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
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The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.
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The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.
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There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
