J. J. Abrams

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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

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.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

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

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

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.