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Colin Trevorrow Quotes

‘Jurassic Park’ is like ‘Star Wars.’ Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

– Colin Trevorrow

Three ‘Jurassic Park’ movies isn’t enough! You want more!

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– 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.

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– Colin Trevorrow

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

– Colin Trevorrow

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

– Colin Trevorrow

I had to travel into the future and direct ‘Jurassic World’ as myself in 20 years – and I did.

– Colin Trevorrow

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

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

– 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

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!

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– Colin Trevorrow

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in ‘Mad Max,’ and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– Colin Trevorrow

‘Jurassic Park’ was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

– Colin Trevorrow

Obviously it’s a thrill to direct a ‘Jurassic Park’ film, and it’s a great honor.

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– 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 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

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true ‘Jurassic Park’ fan.

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– 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’m a horrible business person.

– Colin Trevorrow

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

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– Colin Trevorrow

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

– Colin Trevorrow

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs – boy or girl.

– Colin Trevorrow

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.

– Colin Trevorrow

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