J. J. Abrams Quotes

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• 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.
• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
• I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
• I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
• I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
• Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
• As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
• I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
• I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
• I don't think I have a signature.
• I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
• I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
• I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
• I love recording music.
• I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
• 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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