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

Colin Trevorrow

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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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 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'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. "

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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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