Colin Trevorrow Quotes

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

Film is very condensed.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.