J. J. Abrams Quotes

I absolutely loathe adverts. I won't go into the cinema until 20 minutes after the film is due to start because there are so many.

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.

I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.

As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time.

The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.

To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.

My first movie I saw when I was a kid was 'The Jungle Book.' I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation.

I thought I started acting at 5 or 6, it was really when they were interviewing real families for a toothpaste commercial. They interviewed our family.

A long time ago, my grandfather used to play blackjack with me, when I was very small, and I quite enjoyed that.

My first toy was a box of transistors.

I loved 'The Secret of NIMH.' When that came out, it felt like, 'Wow, this is something really, really new.' It looked like a Disney film, but it felt very cutting edge to me. To a twelve-year-old kid, it seemed very inspiring.

I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes.

Everyone has a goldfish when they're little.

I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.

When I was 12 or 13, I started going to the cinema myself.

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.

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

When I was a child my mother used to pay me half a crown - 12.5 pence - to wash her car each week.

I loved Tolkien and I loved 'Star Wars,' which was the first memory that I have being in a movie theater. And, of course, that was the defining movie for me as a kid.

The first ever VHS I ever owned, my brother and I, was WrestleMania VII. We watched that thing to bits - I think the tape chewed itself up.

I'm probably going to be ashamed to say this... It was a Sir Mix-a-Lot album. I think I was 12, 13. I had just enough money for the 'My Posse's on Broadway' single, so I bought that single. That was the first thing I bought with my own money.

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.