J. J. Abrams Quotes
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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 was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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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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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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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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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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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 am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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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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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
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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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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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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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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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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 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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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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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 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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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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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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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.