Quotes from J. J. Abrams

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

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

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

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.

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

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

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

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 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.

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.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.