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" I'm a horrible business person. "
Colin Trevorrow
Horrible
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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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" 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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" 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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" Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor. "
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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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" 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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" I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories. "
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" I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont. "
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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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" I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero. "
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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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" 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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" 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'm gullible. I think people mean what they say. "
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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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" I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good. "
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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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" Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other. "
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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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" There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view. "
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" I love big movies, and I love big moments. "
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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 want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft. "
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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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" 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 don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that. "
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" I'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me. "
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