J. J. Abrams

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

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

"My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know."

"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 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."

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