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" I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies. "
Colin Trevorrow
Movies
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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 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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" 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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" There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them. "
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" I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook. "
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" I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories. "
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" Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?' "
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" I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero. "
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" 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. "
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" Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" '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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" Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is. "
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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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" 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! "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.' "
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" I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be. "
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