J. J. Abrams

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 try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

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.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

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.

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.