Matt Lanter Quotes

When I was a kid, I was hugely impacted by 'Jurassic Park.' I think I was just the right age when that movie came out, and I remember running around my town like a Velociraptor.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

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

I've been a huge fan of the 'Jurassic Park' movies. It was one of the reasons why I wanted to be an actor.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Three 'Jurassic Park' movies isn't enough! You want more!

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.

It's really cool I get to be part of this 'Jurassic Park' universe.

The sad thing is I don't think I've seen 'Jurassic Park.' Not that it's not an amazing movie, I literally didn't watch film or TV until I was 23 or something.

'Jurassic Park' is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It's fun, but it's not totally gruesome.

I saw 'Clueless' five times in the theatre when I was growing up.

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

'Jurassic Park' was able to get away with big, dynamic filmmaking that might be out of place in another kind of story.

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.

I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.

I watched 'Land of the Lost' as a kid, you know, incessantly. I loved it. Me and my brother watched it every Saturday.

One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory.

It was a film [The Lost World], and it's a sequel at the same time. The first shot on the first day was from the sequel to the movie they hadn't made yet. But yeah, it was a pretty amazing experience running around the jungle for that.

I made Lost World in September of '91, and by the end of that year, I was living in Toronto.

I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.