J. J. Abrams Want Quotations

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

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

I don't think anyone wants a movie on time that's not worth your time.

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.

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

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.