J. J. Abrams Quotes
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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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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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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.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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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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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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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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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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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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I do think there's something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We're in this very weird place where we're being pulled into experiences that aren't really experiences at all.
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I've never done Twitter.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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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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Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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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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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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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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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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Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.