Top 60 Colin Trevorrow Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on ‘New Girl.’

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

I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.

I’m a horrible business person.

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.

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

‘Intelligent Life’ is kind of a companion piece to ‘Safety Not Guaranteed.’ Internally, it’s a sci-fi romantic thriller.

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.

I think, if you can, it’s OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

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

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.

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.

I don’t know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.

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

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.

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

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.

I love big movies, and I love big moments.

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!

Now, everyone in movies is always rich, and they’re always beautiful and graceful-looking.

I don’t have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.

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

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.

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.

I live in Vermont, and we don’t have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don’t have professional crew there.

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

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.

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.

There’s scary stuff in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ There’s some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.

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.

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

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

Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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