J. J. Abrams Quotes
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I don't have proper places to run.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
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I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut interest rates, and that is the way they support growth, but if you cut interest rate to the bone, there is nothing more to cut. It is very hard to support growth beyond that.
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Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
