J. J. Abrams quotes - page 3

J. J. Abrams is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer, famous for his work in both television and film. Known for creating and directing popular series like "Lost" and blockbuster movies such as "Star Trek" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." He is recognized for his innovative storytelling, mystery-driven plots, and dynamic visual style. Here are 67 of his quotes:

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

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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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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 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.

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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

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

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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.

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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

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

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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.

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

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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.

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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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I think that the fun of telling stories in this galaxy is that you get to take things that are familiar and you get to adjust them, augment them, comment on them, continue them. It's a world that is looking to be expanded. I mean, the original movies did the most remarkable thing in referencing the Clone Wars and the Empire and the Senate, and the Old Wars, and never showing any of these things. But the painting that was created of this past canvas, it's incredible how intimate it was. But you always felt that there was a peripheral life and history and world beyond what you were seeing.

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