Colin Trevorrow Quotes

We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

There's little that compares with the thrill of a hit major motion picture experience.

We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we have the movies come out on that, and that's fine. But it shocks me when, having done this a few times, when I really believe a movie should get a wide release, and I struggle to get it released. That does surprise me.

I didn't even think anyone would want to make 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to distribute 'Cop Car,' and then I didn't think anyone would want to see 'Cop Car.'

It is always wonderful to have a theatrical release; lot of filmmakers desire that.

My audiences love watching my films.

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

I fell in love with 'Ben Hur' when I was 8 years old, and I just knew I had to be involved in movies, even if I was the guy who melted the butter on the popcorn.

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.

In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

Cinema serves as a constant reminder to us of who we are and what we are made of.

Cinema is like dream.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

Joe Roth, who ended up becoming president of 20th Century Fox, he was the producer of Our Winning Season. This was one of his first movies. It's just a really great, great little film, a lot of good people in it. I don't know whatever happened to that movie, and why it didn't get the success it deserves.

The 3-D effects in "Star Wars" are so realistic, you can actually see George Lucas reaching from the screen and taking the money from your wallet.