J. J. Abrams Quotes

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

People come up to me and pay their respects by telling me how I was a big part of their childhood. I do not take that for granted, not for one second.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

That's the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.

When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.

I read a lot, and I watch a lot of TV and film now. That's my homework. Like I said, my Netflix. I've watched Aliens a couple times this week, Dawn Of The Dead. And that's what's really cool too. It's nostalgia, because I saw these shows, these movies, a lot of them, when I was a kid, and they're different now when you watch them. I'm like, "Wow, I can't believe my family let me watch that," and "I must have missed that the first time around."

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.

I used to read comics when I was a kid.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

'Power Rangers' has changed a lot of lives.

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

I grew up on films.

I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.

The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.'

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.