J. J. Abrams Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I'm a fast writer.
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I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.
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I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I love recording music.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
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The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.
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As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.