I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.
— Colin Trevorrow
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.
Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.
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.
'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
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 thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.
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.
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.
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.
I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.
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.
The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.
I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.
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.
There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
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 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.
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.
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
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've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!
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.
Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.
I'm a horrible business person.
We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.
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.
I'm very interested in 3D.
'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
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.
Now, everyone in movies is always rich, and they're always beautiful and graceful-looking.
Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.
You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.
I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.
Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?'
'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.
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.
Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor.
There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.
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.
'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.
I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.
I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.
Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.
