A biography for J. J. Abramshasn’t been written yet.
“My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.”
“I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.”
“I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.”
“Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.”
“I love recording music.”
“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.”
“Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.”
“All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.”
“I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.”
“What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.”
“People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.”
“I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.”
“When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.”
“Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.”
“I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.”
“Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.”
“Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.”
“I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.”
“I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.”
“As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.”