I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

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

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

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 such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we've reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they're telling us how they're doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It'd be nice to get a little of the mystery back in.

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.

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

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

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

Anytime somebody tells me they saw 'Safety Not Guaranteed' in the theater, my answer is, 'That was you?'

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

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.

I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.

You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

I've always been someone with a small circle of friends. Each stretch of my life has been defined by one person who was just my person. We became inseparable for a certain number of years, and that time was our season, just the two of us making our way through life.

In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.

Small moments can coexist with big moments and even back right up against each other.

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.

Now, everyone in movies is always rich, and they're always beautiful and graceful-looking.

There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

I would do whatever the haters said they didn't like. They'd say, 'I don't like your lipstick,' so I'd put on more.

I think for me, the best comedy comes from when something feels real and genuine, so even though Miranda is this wacky character, there is a real vulnerability to her that we finally get to show in 'Haters Back Off,' and I think that's what makes this comedy rich and more fulfilling, at least for me.

I'm very open with my life, and I don't regret it because it's what got me here.

Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.

I don't regret anything I've put out there.

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

I couldn't comprehend why someone would film themselves alone in their bedroom and put it online. I thought that was so bizarre. Now I can't imagine not putting my life online and talking to a camera alone in my bedroom; it's become my life.

It fascinated me, these kids who would sit in their living room or bedroom or kitchen and sing to the camera and act out the song fully as though they were onstage. Because a lot of musical theater kids... do that alone in your bedroom when you're a kid. But for someone to go and put that online? That's just so embarrassing!

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

I really tried to take advantage of my 15 minutes of fame. And I've gotten lucky - those 15 minutes have become several years.

With 'Haters Back Off,' I'm creating something that I want to make, and I'm not focused on, 'Is this gonna trend, is this gonna be popular?' I'm just focused on telling the story.

To have the ability to look back on the problems that weren't big problems after all is something I think we can all learn from.

Clowns are meant to make people smile. That's my goal.

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

I am obsessed with my viewers.

I try my hardest with my live show and YouTube to make it appealing to all ages.

I got a lot of hate mail, and that's where the term 'haters back off' came from because I got all this hate.

I travel a lot for work and have people waiting outside my hotel or call my room constantly or show up at whatever restaurant I'm eating at because I Snapchatted. It is a little terrifying.

As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.

I love and enjoy vocal performance, but I also have a huge passion for comedy and improv.

I feel so lucky to have the career that I have. I can travel the world and be a goofball and make people laugh.

Whenever a hater said they hated something about Miranda, I'd do it more.

My audience is like my family at this point.

The only reason I have any success at all in my career is because of the Internet.