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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. "

Colin Trevorrow

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" There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about. "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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

" Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person. "

Colin Trevorrow

" I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else. "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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

" 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

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

Colin Trevorrow

" You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces. "

Colin Trevorrow

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

Colin Trevorrow

" '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. "

Colin Trevorrow

" We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better. "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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

" I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that. "

Colin Trevorrow

" In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them. "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow

" I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. "

Colin Trevorrow

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

Colin Trevorrow

" 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

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

Colin Trevorrow

" 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

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

Colin Trevorrow

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

Colin Trevorrow

" Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.' "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow

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

Colin Trevorrow

" 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

" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow

" 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. "

Colin Trevorrow