Colin Trevorrow Quotes

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

I watched all these movies like 'King Kong' and 'Godzilla' when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

I've always loved dinosaurs.

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

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.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.