You get 12 years of childhood, give or take.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a horrible business person.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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