Quotes by J. J. Abrams

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.