15 Quotes by J. J. Abrams about thinking

  • Author J. J. Abrams
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    I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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

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