Top 67 Quotes by J. J. Abrams

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

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

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

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.