Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.
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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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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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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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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 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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I think living things can recognize the movement of other living things, and all the best animators in the world can't quite capture that something.
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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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I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.
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Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.
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'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
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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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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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The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.
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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.
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My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.
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I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.
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I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.