Colin Trevorrow Quotes

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.

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

I was re-watching 'E.T.' recently, and that scene where they're all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it's such an amazing tone, it's so rough, and nobody's really talking about anything, and it feels like you're in that room with them.

Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?'

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.

I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.

'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.

I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.

I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.

Now, everyone in movies is always rich, and they're always beautiful and graceful-looking.

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

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.

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.

'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.

'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more!

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.

Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.

I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.

I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.

Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor.

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

I'm very interested in 3D.

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

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.

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.

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.

'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.

There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.

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.

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

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.

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.

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.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.

I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.

I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.