J. J. Abrams Quotes

Making a movie is casting a spell.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say 'rain,' and it started raining, and then he would say 'song,' and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God's lap.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

Film is a strange thing.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.

Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

I have been a fan of movies from a very young age, and somehow, the magic of that - every single time I hear something or read something that could be made into a wonderful film or something somebody is asking me to be a part of - that connects. It just makes me feel like I'm going to be part of something magical again.

I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.