Quotes by J. J. Abrams

One of my favorite things about Star Trek wasnt just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

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 sisters head using alginating plaster.

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

Whats a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, youre just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

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

Its a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

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

I mean, my dads a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasnt exactly what I wanted to do.