J.J. Abrams quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by J.J. Abrams

J.J. Abrams Famous Quotes & Sayings

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I don't think I have a signature.

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.

It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

I don't think anyone wants a movie on time that's not worth your time.

Well, we're all victims of our own gene pool. Unfortunately, someone must have peed in yours. - Walter Bishop, "Fringe" (TV)

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.

I love recording music.

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.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

You beat death, Arvin. But you couldn't beat me.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

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.

To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

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.

I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

Don't sell your story, just tell your story.

I don't think it was hate,' Castus replied thoughtfully. 'I think it was fear.

My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.

I've never done Twitter.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

He walks among us, but is not with us.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.