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

Colin Trevorrow

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague. "

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" 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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" 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'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. "

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