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" 'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. "

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Know

People

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Looking

" 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. "

" I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films. "

" There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that! "

" There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies. "

" 'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story. "

" You get 12 years of childhood, give or take. "

" I love big movies, and I love big moments. "

" 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. "

" Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other. "

Colin Trevorrow

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Against

" 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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Feel

" Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?' "

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Somebody

Answer

" I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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Want

" I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies. "

" 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

People

" I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children. "

" I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again. "

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