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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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You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.
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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 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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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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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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There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
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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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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 didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
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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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We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.
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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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I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.
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I'm a horrible business person.
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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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'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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'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
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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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I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else.
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Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
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Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.
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Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more!