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 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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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
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There's only so far you can push a man.
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When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.
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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
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There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
