Zitat des Tages von J. J. Abrams:
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
I don't think I have a signature.
I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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.
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
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.
I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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.
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
I'm a fast writer.
You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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.
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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.
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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.