J. J. Abrams Quotes
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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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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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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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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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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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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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 believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
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Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.
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I’ve always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane. … The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.