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" I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies. "
Colin Trevorrow
Want
Weird
I Can
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" 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. "
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Young
Always
" 'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed. "
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Hell
Funny
" I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid. "
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Star
Future
Kid
" I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood. "
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You
Power
People
" There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it. "
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Animals
See
Human
" 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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Human
Good
Dinosaurs
" 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
Me
Park
Want
" I'm a horrible business person. "
Colin Trevorrow
Horrible
Business
Person
" Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them. "
Colin Trevorrow
Since
Never
Get
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
Better
Good
Movies
" I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be. "
Colin Trevorrow
Scared
Would
Way
" I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero. "
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Hero
Kind
Mad
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
Love
Place
Time
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
Mission
Generation
Find
" I love big movies, and I love big moments. "
Colin Trevorrow
Movies
Moments
Love
" Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is. "
Colin Trevorrow
Matter
Independent
Need
" Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other. "
Colin Trevorrow
Back
Against
Up
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
Always
Us
People
" Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one. "
Colin Trevorrow
Name
You
Better
" The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults. "
Colin Trevorrow
Our
Childhood
Great
" The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. "
Colin Trevorrow
You
Teach
School
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
I Can
Moments
Wife
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
Mistakes
Learn
Time
" Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan. "
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Michael
True
Park
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
Just
Flight
Going
" 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. "
Colin Trevorrow
Now
Technology
Good
" I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life. "
Colin Trevorrow
Friends
Life
Small
" You get 12 years of childhood, give or take. "
Colin Trevorrow
Get
Take
Give
" 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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Better
Song
You
" 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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Funny
Actor
Great