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I'm a horrible business person.
I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.
I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.
I think intensity is one thing, and gore is another.
Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more!
Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.
I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.
I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else.
'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.
Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.
I'm a 'Star Wars' kid. I'm a 'Back to the Future' kid. I'm a Spielberg kid.
Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.
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.
Obviously it's a thrill to direct a 'Jurassic Park' film, and it's a great honor.
I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.
Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.
Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.
I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.
I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.
I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.
I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.
There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.
I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.
Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.
'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.
I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.
I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!
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.
Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?'
'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.
I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.
Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.
I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.
'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.
'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
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'm from Oakland and San Francisco, so I feel like the Pacific Northwest starts there and goes north - so, it's home to me.
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.
The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.
I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.
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.
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.
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.