J. J. Abrams Quotes
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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 never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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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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There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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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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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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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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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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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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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
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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've never done Twitter.