Quotes from Colin Trevorrow

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'm a horrible business person.

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

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

I was re-watching 'E.T.' recently, and that scene where they're all around the pizza, bringing the pizza in, and gambling and stuff together, it's such an amazing tone, it's so rough, and nobody's really talking about anything, and it feels like you're in that room with them.