J. J. Abrams Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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 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 believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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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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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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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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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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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 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 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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Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
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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.