131 Quotes by J. J. Abrams

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

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

We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns had to our parents' generations, left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, everything that any of us does is somehow directly or indirectly affected by the experience of seeing those first three films.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.