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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. "

Colin Trevorrow

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

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

" I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid. "

" 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. "

" I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people. "

" 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. "

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

" I love big movies, and I love big moments. "

" The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we've reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they're telling us how they're doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It'd be nice to get a little of the mystery back in. "

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

" You get 12 years of childhood, give or take. "

" I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete. "

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

" 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. "

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