Category: J. J. Abrams

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.

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.

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 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.