J. J. Abrams
Related What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abr... ROBERT PICARDO PETER GUBER STEVEN SPIELBERG You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover the... GARRY MARSHALL To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time becau... COREY REYNOLDS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. Whe... EMMANUELLE BEART We are going to re-create a 1940s theater underground where the cart pulls up to the movie marquee w... JANE MCCONE It's tricky to get people to go see a movie in theaters today. 'Blair Witch' is playing ... JAMES ALLEN MCCUNE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a ... NINA ARIANDA The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. Bu... ASHTON EATON 'Hamilton' just asks us all to go a little bit deeper: whether you're a hip-hop fan seei... PHILLIPA SOO The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight... TAMMY BLANCHARD What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That'... ELLE FANNING The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is... THOMAS KAIL DAVID A. R. WHITE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON KATHLEEN KENNEDY ADAM DRIVER And when he is telling a serious story, you can hear a pin drop. It's is the same thing as going to ... JOE STOWELL You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a c... DANIEL HANDLER Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous pr... DONNA MCKECHNIE Take the leap. If you love theater more than anything, take the leap. It's so rich if you give o... MICHAEL LOMENDA PIERCE BROSNAN When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary worl... ROBERT KRULWICH CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by... TROY DUFFY MICHAEL JACKSON HUGH JACKMAN TOM STOPPARD EMMA WATSON Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go d... ELI WALLACH GWYNETH PALTROW BRAD BIRD JOHN TRUDELL As theater legends go, they don't get any bigger than Chita, GRACIELA DANIELE WARREN CUCCURULLO You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the n... JACK ANTONOFF My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared... GINA GERSHON I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie... KATE BECKINSALE That's the catch 22 of commercial theater. You can't go forward with no theater, but we need to go f... KATHLEEN MARSHALL STERLING K. BROWN You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not... NASTASSJA KINSKI With an independent movie, it's like, 'Okay I know what I want, and I got to go for it.'... DAVID TWOHY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Cliff really went out of his way to help us with this. ...The best part is, we're using 1962 prices.... CATHY DAME BURT RUTAN Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so ea... DAVID MILLAR The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the ... MARK SHEPPARD As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often.... KETHER DONOHUE DENZEL WASHINGTON J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path... BOB HOPKINS J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path... BOB HOPKINS CHLOE THURLOW All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation'... ESTELLE PARSONS You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you ... DOUGRAY SCOTT GEORGE LUCAS JACK MCBRAYER JAMES WAN Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft... AMY IRVING BEN STILLER I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ... BILLY PORTER It's a true mystery theater in the sense that the audience is part of it. CASSANDRA HESSELTINE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING When you're watching a Hitchcock movie, you, for most of the movie, are playing the guessing gam... ALEX KURTZMAN MEGAN FOX There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, ... TATE TAYLOR BRIAN DENNEHY JAMES CORDEN When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give y... ROBIN GIBB I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews ... EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN DREW HOUSTON My take is that J&J would still like to do the deal but that Guidant is unwilling to negotiate the p... PATRICK KASER I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a... EMILE HIRSCH CHRISTOPHER GUEST DOUGLAS ADAMS J.K. ROWLING J.K. ROWLING C. JOYBELL C. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI BRAD PAISLEY With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like yo... ADRIA ARJONA MICHAEL MOORE I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can b... SAM UNDERWOOD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... COLIN TREVORROW Movies are not a tangible experience. You go to a theater and watch a movie. It plays to you. This w... DONALD EVANS Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS CHRISTOPHER GUEST The theater remains relevant because of 3D. It makes it an event. You go there, 400 people put on th... EVAN GOLDBERG Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody&... D. A. PENNEBAKER I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater. TREVOR NUNN EDDIE MURPHY NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the conne... BELLAMY YOUNG
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J MASCIS People have to do what they want to do. J MASCIS All labels are offensive in some way. J MASCIS Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we... J MASCIS I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great. J MASCIS It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess t... J MASCIS I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer. J MASCIS I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate t... J MASCIS I've never liked rehearsing too much. J MASCIS When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough. J MASCIS Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. J MASCIS It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play reall... J MASCIS I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees. 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I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's ... 
We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie thea... 
When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your... 
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that a... 
To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it sc... 
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... 
Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. ... 
In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ... 
Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual... 
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What... 
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's s... 
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It... 
It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace... 
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgo... 
Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in th... 
Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and g... 
We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. 
It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same wit... 
I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what... 
As a director you're always so busy - you're go, go, go, you're always moving, moving, m... 
I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you... 
When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it r... 
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very in... 
If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If ... 
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The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's no... 
In the beginning the Universe was created.
A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a pa... 
If you're somebody that gets a chance to go somewhere... that has to work somewhere or go to ano... 
There's only one movie theater in the entire city of Detroit. The entire city has one open movie... 
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're rea... 
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it... 
We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theate... 
The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage... 
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