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 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 don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell."
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So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
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Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.
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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.
