3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I find that it’s hard to fully examine one’s life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I hope to make movies that are so small they don’t need to make anything to be profitable.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams 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.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there’s almost a sense of entitlement to that.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams 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.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I’ve also never run to the movies because something’s in 3-D.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams 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.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn’t have to be a creature.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams What I’m still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams I’d love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams 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.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams 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.
3 December 2020 J. J. Abrams Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
