There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.

In a movie that's sort of a single monster movie, like 'Jaws,' once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you're able to start working on ways to take down the threat.

I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital.

Michael Giacchino is a fiercely creative musical mind and a true 'Jurassic Park' fan.

'Jurassic Park' doesn't belong to America; it belongs to the whole world.

I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

I'm very interested in 3D.

Big, big movies are in 3D, but we haven't reached a point yet where that's just what a movie is.

I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.

I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.

I'm a horrible business person.

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.