Top quotes by Colin Trevorrow

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. Votes: 25

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. Votes: 12

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. Votes: 12

Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller. Votes: 11

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. Votes: 10

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. Votes: 9

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did. Votes: 8

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. Votes: 8

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults. Votes: 7

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. Votes: 6

I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies. Votes: 6

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. Votes: 5

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories. Votes: 4

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 2

Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is. Votes: 2

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces. Votes: 2

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them. Votes: 2

We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people. Votes: 0

I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont. Votes: 0

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies. Votes: 0

'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one. Votes: 0

I'm a horrible business person. Votes: 0

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world. Votes: 0

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft. Votes: 0

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.' Votes: 0

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say. Votes: 0

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again. Votes: 0

Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world. Votes: 0

Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor. Votes: 0

Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think living things can recognize the movement of other living things, and all the best animators in the world can't quite capture that something. Votes: 0

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