J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob Abramsis an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is known for work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and/or produced feature films such as Regarding Henry, Forever Young, Armageddon, Cloverfield, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth27 June 1966
CountryUnited States of America
writing play drawing
I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.
leap-of-faith storytelling leap
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
school mean age
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.
focus feelings demand
Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
sports people better-than-you
Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
kids trying three
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
stories want events
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.
movie-love creatures performances
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
blessed people capacity
I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.
kids thinking years
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
issues long stories
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
running theory
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
thinking want worth-your-time
I don't think anyone wants a movie on time that's not worth your time.
needs profitable
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.