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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. "

Colin Trevorrow

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. "

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" I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there. "

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

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

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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 love big movies, and I love big moments. "

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" I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say. "

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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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" 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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" I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero. "

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" I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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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" I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont. "

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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 like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face. "

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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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" Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is. "

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