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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be. "

" I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.' "

" We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me. "

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Time

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

" 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. "

" 'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Want

" 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. "

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

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

" The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm very interested in 3D. "

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