131 Quotes by J. J. Abrams

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.

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.

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.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

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

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.