J. J. Abrams Quotes
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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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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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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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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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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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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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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I've never done Twitter.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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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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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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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.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.