J. J. Abrams Quotes
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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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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 work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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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 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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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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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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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've never done Twitter.
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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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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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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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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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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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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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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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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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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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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.