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J. J. Abrams Biography

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (/ˈeɪbrəmz/; born June 27, 1966) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and composer. He is known for work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote or produced such films as Regarding Henry (1991), Forever Young (1992), Armageddon (1998), Cloverfield (2008), Star Trek (2009), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and the upcoming Star Wars: Episode IX (2019).

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I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

Character, Drawing, Fun, Kissing, Wondering

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

Kids, Star, Stars, Thing, War, Wars

I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

Grateful, Kid, Kids, Lucas, May

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Creature, Creatures, Movie Love, Performance, Performances, Spectacle

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

Age, Entitlement, Instant, Knowledge

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

Kids, Thinking, Threat, Years

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.

Mean, Kids, Feelings, Grandfather, Studios, Remember

Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

Writing, Years, Long, Bothering, Badly, Pilot

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

Felt, Lucky, Strategy, Would Be

Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

Imagination, Knowledge, Technology, Ultimately, White

Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means that you've gotten through all the writing stuff, and the producing stuff, and casting, and prep, and all those stages that are seemingly endless. So directing is sort of the reward for all the work you put in before. And then there's the editing, which is another amazing stage of the process. It's incredible the moments you can create.

Editing, Mean, Prep, Producing, Sort, Writing

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

Fall, Gene, Optimistic, Things, Think, Thinking

I don't think I have a signature.

Thinking, Signatures, Think, Signature

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

Appreciate, Fans, Want

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

Book, Comic, Comic Book, Fanatic

I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.

Analogue, Distinctly, Obsessed, Things

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

Assume, Assuming, Guess, Think, Thinking

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.

Thinking, Ideas, Giving, Cinema, Certain, Back

George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.

Artist, Everything, Grateful, Mean, Reason

You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

Stars, War, Thinking, Resonance, Story, Guts

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