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.

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.

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.

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

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

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