Quotes from Colin Trevorrow

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.

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 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.

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

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

I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.