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" There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies. "
Colin Trevorrow
Scary
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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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" I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had. "
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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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" 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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" Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor. "
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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. "
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" I'm such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we've reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they're telling us how they're doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It'd be nice to get a little of the mystery back in. "
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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 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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" 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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" We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better. "
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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 don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. "
Colin Trevorrow
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" I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies. "
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" Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is. "
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" Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one. "
Colin Trevorrow
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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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" 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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" We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me. "
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Time
" 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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" I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else. "
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" Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more! "
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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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" Now, everyone in movies is always rich, and they're always beautiful and graceful-looking. "
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