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" There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings. "
Colin Trevorrow
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl. "
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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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" Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more! "
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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 love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook. "
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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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" 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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