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.
Colin Trevorrow
There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more!
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.
Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor.
'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.
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.
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 gullible. I think people mean what they say.
'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs.
There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.
I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.
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.
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.
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.
Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
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!
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.
'Jurassic Park' movies don't fit into a specific genre. They're sci-fi adventures that also have to be funny, emotional, and scary as hell. That takes a lot of construction, but it can't feel designed.
The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
I feel like, on a more macro scale, there's started to be a relationship between filmmakers and people who watch their films - you know, on Twitter and on the Internet.
I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.
I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.
'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.
Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.
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.
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.
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!
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.
'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.
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.
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.
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.
I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.
I love big movies, and I love big moments.
I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook.
I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.
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 think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.
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 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'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.
Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
