J. J. Abrams Quotes
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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'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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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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I don't think I have a signature.
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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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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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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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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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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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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 love recording music.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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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 feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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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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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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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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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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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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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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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.