A biography for J. J. Abramshasn’t been written yet.
“I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.”
“I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.”
“We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.”
“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.”
“'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.”
“I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.”
“I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.”
“The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.”
“You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.”
“All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.”
“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.”
“I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.”
“One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.”
“When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.”
“I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.”
“I was never really a comic-book fanatic.”
“My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.”
“To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.”
“I don't think I have a signature.”
“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.”