85 Quotes by J.J. Abrams

All I know is that I’ve made some big screw-ups, and I’ve done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I’ve made.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

I’m not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.