Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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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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You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.
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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 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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I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.
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In a movie that's sort of a single monster movie, like 'Jaws,' once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you're able to start working on ways to take down the threat.
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We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.
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There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
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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 didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
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I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital.
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I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.
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'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.
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The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
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I'm a horrible business person.
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I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.
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Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
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I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else.
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I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.
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There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.
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I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid.
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Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.
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I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.
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'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.