Latest J. J. Abrams Quotes from Interviews

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• Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

  J. J. Abrams

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: deadline.com

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

  J. J. Abrams

  Ideas, Episodes, Theory

  Source: deadline.com

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

  J. J. Abrams

  Ideas, Waiting, Next

  Source: deadline.com

• Honestly I'm excited about the possibilities of what comes next, and the funny thing is, that is sort of what "Star Wars" is kind of about. I mean, I remember being 10 years old and seeing that movie and leaving the theater and feeling like, oh, my God, anything is possible. And I feel like anything is possible right now. I don't know what's next, but I look forward to it.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Mean

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, Kelly McEvers, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. January 8, 2016.

• I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

• I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

• You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Thinking

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

• Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Important

  Source: www.npr.org

• George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.

  J. J. Abrams

  Grateful, Mean, Artist

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, Kelly McEvers, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. January 8, 2016.

• And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

• Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That's something that had never been done.

  J. J. Abrams

  Choices, Storm, Stories

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

• Well, you know, going into any project, especially with a fan base as vocal and passionate as something as "Star Wars," you will have groups of people who will find issues with whatever it is you're doing. But our job was to tell the best story we could about characters that we loved, and we knew that we needed to go backwards to go forwards, and we needed to go back to a feeling and a place and a time.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, Jobs, War

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Film, Share

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

• We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, Couple, War

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  J. J. Abrams

  Want, Worried, Decent

  Source: collider.com

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

  J. J. Abrams

  Appreciate, Fans, Want

  Source: collider.com

• I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

  J. J. Abrams

  Ideas, Decision, World

  Source: collider.com

• There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.

  J. J. Abrams

  Ideas, Long, Going Away

  Source: collider.com

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

  J. J. Abrams

  Thinking, Want, Worth Your Time

  Source: collider.com

• I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

  J. J. Abrams

  Grateful, Kids, Home

  Source: collider.com

• I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.

  J. J. Abrams

  Cameras, Use, Problem

  Source: collider.com

• It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

  J. J. Abrams

  Crazy, Writing, People

  Source: collider.com

• It's not often that I read about actors that I'm going to be meeting. I get to read articles about actors who were going to come in, so I get to see someone and say, "Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It's very nice to see you."

  J. J. Abrams

  Nice, Actors, Articles

  Source: collider.com

• Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.

  J. J. Abrams

  Choices, Hours, Projects

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

  J. J. Abrams

  Writing, Play, Drawing

  Source: www.pbs.org