00:00What has brought you back? You don't often come back. You came back from Indiana Jones.
00:03What was the secret sauce of this that thought, let's go back to Dinosaur, shall we?
00:08We had a good idea. I think writing a script is always binary. It's a one or a zero.
00:15You have a good idea and you get lots of ideas, or you have an okay idea and you get zero ideas
00:20and drag yourself through it. Don't drag yourself through it. Stephen called me and said,
00:24what do you think about doing another Dinosaur movie? And I said, what's the idea?
00:29And for the next several months, we kicked ideas back and forth until we felt like we had something.
00:33How do you get into the headspace when you're doing something like this?
00:37Because I guess as a writer, you're covering a lot of different genres, different topics at different times.
00:41But when you're trying to get yourself into that headspace you're in, wow, 32 years ago, yeah.
00:48What do you do? Do you just go sit in a large field or what?
00:51Well, the first thing I wanted to do, I wanted to refresh my memory on all six of the previous films.
00:57Not to imitate them, but to remember what went before.
01:01But then I reread both of Michael Crichton's novels, The First Jurassic Park and The Lost World,
01:08because I needed to get my head back into that space.
01:12And I know his research is so exquisite. His ideas are so brilliant. The science is so good.
01:17And I wanted to be able to take things from those and recapture the tone of what I did with those.
01:24Just getting here to the carpet today, you hear that music.
01:28And I think for anyone who grew up with those movies, the hairs on the back of your neck start to stand up.
01:33You start looking back throughout your own life.
01:35How do you compute that, the impact these movies have made on the cultural world, the cultural landscape over the last 30 years?
01:46Do you get to sit down and go, holy crap, look what we did?
01:50It's a mind blower.
01:53And I, you know what I do, I, I, I, I'm very grateful that I was a part of those.
01:59Because the, the, the first movie in particular is, you know, really meaningful to a lot of people.
02:05And I feel like my job on any movie is to be assistant storyteller.
02:09And I'm just, I feel so, so lucky that I was able to be the assistant storyteller on that special movie.
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