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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

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J. J. Abrams
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 27
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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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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
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I'm working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make sure no one could see what I was doing. It seems rather extreme.
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We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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We're always pitching ideas and being told no thank you. No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
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