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.
~ J. J. Abrams
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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.
