Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Colin Trevorrow - Page 2

I'm a horrible business person.

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.