J. J. Abrams Ideas 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 love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.

It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.

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.

We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.