Colin Trevorrow Quotes

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

Genre is great and I love sci-fi.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

I love horror, fantasy and sci-fi. Those are my genres of love and devotion.

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'