J. J. Abrams Quotes

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

J. J. Abrams

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

J. J. Abrams

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Jeffrey Jacob Abrams Jr. (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker and composer. He is best known for his works in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and produced such films as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Trek (2009), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Abrams' films have grossed over $4 billion worldwide, making him the eighth-highest-grossing film director of all time.
Abrams has created numerous television series, including Felicity (co-creator, 1998–2002), Alias (creator, 2001–2006), Lost (co-creator, 2004–2010), and Fringe (co-creator, 2008–2013). He won two Emmy Awards for Lost – Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series.
His directorial film work includes Mission: Impossible III (2006), Star Trek (2009), Super 8 (2011), and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). He also directed, co-produced and co-wrote The Force Awakens, the seventh episode of the Star Wars Skywalker Saga and the first film of the sequel trilogy. The film is his highest-grossing, the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation, as well as the most expensive film ever made. He returned to Star Wars by executive producing The Last Jedi (2017), and directing and co-writing The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Abrams' frequent collaborators include producer Bryan Burk, producer/directors Damon Lindelof and Tommy Gormley, actors Greg Grunberg, Simon Pegg, Amanda Foreman, and Keri Russell, composer Michael Giacchino, writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, cinematographers Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong, and editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey.

J. J. Abrams Quotes

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

About Author

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would...

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

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 hea...

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

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'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

I love recording music.

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeli...

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 love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

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

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

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

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

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

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.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.