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List of J. J. Abrams Quotes
We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams
Total Quotes 124
I Don't Want To Do Something That Is So Inside That Only Die-hard Fans Will Appreciate.
Appreciate
Fans
Want
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.
Stars
Couple
War
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.
Choices
Storm
Stories
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.
Stars
War
Thinking
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.
Stars
War
Important
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.
Grateful
Mean
Artist
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.
Thinking
People
Age
I Sort Of Love The Idea Of, You Know, Watching Something And Then Having To Wait For The Next Episode.
Ideas
Waiting
Next
Whenever You're Playing Sports With People Who Are Better Than You Are, It Makes You Rise To The Occasion.
Sports
People
Occasions
The Idea To Put Episodes Out Weekly In Theory Makes As Much Sense As Putting Them All Out At Once.
Ideas
Episodes
Theory
I Feel Blessed That I Get To Be Part Of Entertaining People In Any Capacity.
Blessed
People
Capacity
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.
Thinking
Ideas
Giving
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.
Ideas
Decision
World
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.
Choices
Hours
Projects
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.
Crazy
Writing
People
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."
Nice
Actors
Articles
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.
Cameras
Use
Problem
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.
Writing
Play
Drawing
I Don't Think Anyone Wants A Movie On Time That's Not Worth Your Time.
Thinking
Want
Worth Your Time
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.
Stars
Jobs
War
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.
Writing
Years
Long
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.
Stars
War
Kids
The Ability Of A Television Series To Make Adjustments Is Something You've Got To Take Advantage Of.
Television
Advantage
Ability
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.
Sports
Kids
Blow
Born: June 27, 1966
Occupation: Television Producer
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