J. J. Abrams Trying Quotations

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 not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.