Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
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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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'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs.
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We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.
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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.
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'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
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Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.
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There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in 'Jurassic Park' took human lives and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad.
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There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.
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I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.
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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!
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I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.
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In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.
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I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.
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Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
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Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
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Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.
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We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.
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I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.
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I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.
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'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.
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I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new 'Jurassic Park' movie for a new generation.
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There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.
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I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.