J. J. Abrams Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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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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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
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Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
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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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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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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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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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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.