Quotes About J.J. Abrams

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

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

What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes.

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film.

I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.

It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams. He got me to drive a Corvette, which was pretty awesome, and jumping out of it was even cooler.

When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is.

What I loved about the original trilogy is how real it felt. I still to this moment can't believe how it felt to look at the desert of what was supposed to be Tatooine and seeing these two droids walking along and no fantasy genre film had ever, in my experience, looked like that before. And suddenly this was real.

I'm not someone who quite understands the science of the Force. To me Star Wars was never about science fiction -- it was a spiritual story.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

There were things about these characters that sucked me in, regardless of and despite their being on Star Trek.

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