Colin Trevorrow Quotes
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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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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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There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.
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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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'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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I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
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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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I'm a horrible business person.
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I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.
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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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I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else.
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Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more!
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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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The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
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For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.
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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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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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'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
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Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
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I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good.
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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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I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid.