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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.

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J. J. Abrams
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 27
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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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.
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It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
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Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.
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George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.
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Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
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Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this Star Wars movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.
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It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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