J. J. Abrams

Director

1966-06-27

Books by J. J. Abrams

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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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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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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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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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