My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's really cool I get to be part of this 'Jurassic Park' universe.
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.
'Jurassic' is a legacy and a classic. Steven Spielberg created something pretty spectacular. It's actually really interesting, when I look at it, I ask, 'How has my life changed since being Lex?' And I can literally walk into just about any city in the world and people will know who I am.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
Everything about doing 'Jurassic World' was a dream come true.
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've always loved dinosaurs.
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 had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.