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I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.
J. J. Abrams
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J. J. Abrams
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 27
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Jeffrey Jacob Abrams
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Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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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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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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I do think there's something about the digital age that is increasingly dehumanising us. We're in this very weird place where we're being pulled into experiences that aren't really experiences at all.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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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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It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.
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Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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Don't sell your story, just tell your story.
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
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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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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.
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I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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