Busch Gardens was my theme park; it was where I went on my day off from school.
I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.
'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs.
We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.
The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride?
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
If you can imagine the delight of visiting a theme park where lasting memories are made, we envision 'Sky' will sometimes feel like that.
As far as creating my own theme park, it would probably just have to do with things I like, like my dog and other people's dogs, and lots of dogs and cats.
Michael had Neverland. It was his mission before Michael passed away to create a theme park, and we are taking over that mission.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
