J. J. Abrams Quotes
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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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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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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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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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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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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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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The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.
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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
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I've never done Twitter.
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I'm a fast writer.
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I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
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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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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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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 love recording music.
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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.