S Jj Abrams Quotes

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.

He walks among us, but is not with us.

The thing is: you might be right to trust someone at one point, but they can change." "+ in between they must be drifting from trustworthy to not. But you can't tell how far they've drifted until it's too late.

I don't think it was hate,' Castus replied thoughtfully. 'I think it was fear.

To be a self rewritten from a lost first draft.

He can see the stars; he no longer has a need for the constellations

Well, we're all victims of our own gene pool. Unfortunately, someone must have peed in yours. - Walter Bishop, "Fringe" (TV)

This is where his life - his remade life - has brought him. Each strange juncture has led to the next and now he is here. He is here, and it is nowhere.

Every story has at least a little truth in it. Every story comes from somewhere.

Find what you love. Then fight like hell when people try to take it away from you.

You beat death, Arvin. But you couldn't beat me.

Their history, mine, yours... A story of... choises.

To be self rewritten from a lost first draft.

That night's dream: a narrow column of dark liquid in a tall glass; a blue-black waterspout plunging from the sky; a swirl of black-fruit icing piped over a pastry hot from the oven; a long, feminine finger laid over lips; a torrent of whispers that that finger cannot hush.

Like JJ Abrams,  creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers another way to connect with your story.  Entertainment does not need to be contained in one medium. Think about telling your story in many mediums.

For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive, ...

A person is no more & no less than the story of passions & deeds.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

What if the constellations no longer held? [...] Would it not cause one to scrutinize the totality of one's surroundings carefully? Would it not terrify?

It occurs to me that hearts and souls and lives can themselves be sites of unimaginable suffering.

Better a change than an end.

All that ink, all that pigment, all that desperate action to preserve that which had been created--- it is valuable because story is a fragile and ephemeral thing on its own, a thing that is easily effaced or disappeared or destroyed, and it is worth preserving.

This movie, it’s about the new generation, and what they’ve inherited, the light and the dark, and asking the question as they face the greatest evil: Are they prepared? Are they ready? -

Don't you give up a part of yourself when you devote yourself to anything?

Many well-known writers and editors joked that Straka "must live in a cave somewhere," mocking his need for solitude and privacy. What these publishing-industry extroverts failed to understand is that many more people in the world share Straka's feelings than theirs.

He remained vexed by the working of this strange world. He is uncertain whether he can exercise free within it.

DEC 18 MAYBE WE REALLY are alone in the galaxy. The heroes and villains of Star Wars: The Force Awakens sure seem to be. Although we’ve only seen flashes of actual footage from next December’s journey into that other universe, it’s interesting to note that director J.J. Abrams chose to introduce the first new characters in moments of isolation and desperation. Consider John Boyega as Finn, the scared, sweaty stormtrooper trying to make an escape in the desert. Or Daisy Ridley’s Rey, riding solo (no pun intended) in her Taser-shaped speeder across a similarly blighted

He remained vexed by the working of this strange world. He is uncertain whether he can exercise free will within it.

But if enough people think of you a certain way, it becomes true. Even if it's not true.

Time and circumstances change us. We are sums of our experiences? Or do some of them change us in fundamental ways?

But I also value my intuition, and I think it is a very dangerous business to start doubting your intuition. Without intuition, the world becomes a flat place, a stunted place. A place where change is impossible.

Maybe intuition is something you had before you were taught what you think is your intuition now.

This is what happens, of course: men get lost, men vanish, men are erased and reborn.

J.J. [Abrams] and I had dinner soon after he decided to take on the project. We'd known each other from back in the ABC days - he'd made Alias and Lost for us, among other things -

Here's what I don't get: when you're growing up, you get told that America's all about the individual, built on individualism, you get to be who you want to be, etc. But it only goes so far. You get out of school and you're supposed to go back to being a good little girl and find your job and fit in and follow the rules and it all makes me want to...

Better y'not vex y'self on what aint y'vexes. - Malstrom pg 269