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" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow

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

" I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them. "

" You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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