J J Abrams - Best Quotes

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 head using alginating plaster.

Movies

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 feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J J Abrams

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 feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Movies

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.

J J Abrams

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.

Movies

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

J J Abrams

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

Movies

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

J J Abrams

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

Learning

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

J J Abrams

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

Humor

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 face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

J J Abrams

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 face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

Hope

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

J J Abrams

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

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Author: J J Abrams

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.

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 head using alginating plaster.

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 feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

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

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.

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 face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

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