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" Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other. "
Colin Trevorrow
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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 a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid. "
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" I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another. "
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" 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! "
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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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" There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies. "
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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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" The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. "
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" There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about. "
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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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" I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do. "
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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 don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that. "
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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 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. "
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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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Always
" If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do. "
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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! "
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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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World
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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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" '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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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 was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again. "
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Again
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" I'm very interested in 3D. "
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Very
" 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. "
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" I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital. "
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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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