TIME's Hollywood correspondent, Rebecca Winters Keegan, sat down with him on the set of the new Star Trek movie he's directing, where Abrams talked about sci-fi as catharsis, the age of self-documentation and why we're so obsessed with the end of the world.
TIME: What's behind the enduring popularity of apocalyptic tales?
ABRAMS: Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
Did you cast lesser-known actors in order for the story to be more relatable?
They're for the most part more attractive people than you might find in your average home videotape, but we wanted to show you actors you wouldn't remember from another movie or TV show, like this was found material.
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