J. J. Abrams Quotes

I Don't Want To Do Something That Is So Inside That Only Die-hard Fans Will Appreciate.

We Went On The Opening Weekend [of Star Wars], A Group Of Us Went Out And Just Popped Into A Couple Theaters Just To See People In The Theater Watching The Movie, And It Was Incredibly Gratifying Just To See The Thing Out There Being Watched By People. And The Reaction Was More Than We Could've Expected.

Well, We Knew That We Wanted To Tell A Story That Made Bold Choices, And One Of Those Bold Choices Was Meeting A Storm Trooper And Seeing Who This Person Was. That's Something That Had Never Been Done.

You Know, We Didn't Want To Kill Anyone, But We Knew That "star Wars" Is A Generational Tale. It Always Is. And For It To Have Some Guts And Some Resonance And True Stakes, I Don't Think That Everyone Could Have Come Through The Story Unscathed.

Well, When Kathy Kennedy, Who Is The President Of Lucasfilm, Came To Me To Ask If I'd Be Interested In Working On This "star Wars" Movie, We Talked About A Young Woman At The Center Of The Story From The Outset. And It Was Something That Was Always An Important Part Of This Movie.

George Lucas Is The Reason That We Got To Make This Movie, You Know, He Was The Man That Created This Whole Galaxy, And I Am Incredibly Grateful To Him. He's An Artist And He's A Grown-up. And I Take Him At His Word, And It Doesn't Mean I Agree With Everything He Says, But I Respect, You Know, His Right To His Opinion.

I Think That The Reason You Keep Hearing That It's The Golden Age Of Tv Is Because Original Storytelling Is Happening All The Time In That Medium, And People Are Hungry For It. And I'm As Guilty As Anyone For Being Part Of An Industry That Is Capitalizing On Existing Stories, Sequels, These Things That We Are Seeing Again And Again And Again.

I Sort Of Love The Idea Of, You Know, Watching Something And Then Having To Wait For The Next Episode.

Whenever You're Playing Sports With People Who Are Better Than You Are, It Makes You Rise To The Occasion.

The Idea To Put Episodes Out Weekly In Theory Makes As Much Sense As Putting Them All Out At Once.

I Feel Blessed That I Get To Be Part Of Entertaining People In Any Capacity.

I Do Think That At A Certain Point, The Reboot Sequel Mode Has To Give Way To Original Ideas And Back To A Place Where, You Know, Films Are, You Know, A Medium And The Cinema Is A Place You Go To See Something That Is, You Know, Wholly New.